Famous Long Ago
Author | : Raymond Mungo |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Raymond Mungo |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Raymond Mungo |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1940436044 |
In making her selection for Pharos Editions, Dana Spiotta tells us how drawn she was by the work of Raymond Mungo. "[He] writes . . . about his own joy and his own pain, he is particularly good when he describes the land around him and how it feels on his body." Indeed, if Henry David Thoreau had downed a handful of liberty caps before penning Walden it would have read much like Mungo's Total Loss Farm, a rollicking memoir of the late 1960's back–to–the–earth movement. Written in a limber prose style formed by the tempo of the times, Mungo takes us into the cultural tsunami of a failed radical politics as it broke on the shoals of a drug–fueled personal freedom and washed inland across the farmlands of Vermont, leaving a trail of damage and redemption in its wake. Total Loss Farm attracted widespread critical and commercial attention in 1970, when the "back–to–the–land" hippie commune movement first emerged. The book's first section, "Another Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," appeared as the cover article in the May 1970 issue of Atlantic Monthly. The hardcover first edition from Dutton was quickly followed by paperback editions from Bantam, Avon, and Madrona Publishers, keeping the book in print for several decades. Very recently, Dwight Garner in the New York Times Book Review cited Total Loss Farm as "the best and also the loopiest of the commune books."
Author | : Patrick D Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1561645826 |
A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Composers |
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Author | : Alyson Noel |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-12-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553537989 |
Is being famous the key to living the life of your (tween) dreams? Find out in this modern-day fairy tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël! Seventh-grade girls like guys who are cool. And Nick Dashaway . . . is not cool. When Nick makes a wish after the epic disaster that was the Greentree Middle School Talent Show, he doesn't actually think it's going to come true. But it does. Soon he has a whole new life--he's rich, he's popular, and girls laugh at all his jokes. He's famous. But when he begins to miss parts of his old life, is it too late to get it back? *** “A Hollywood blockbuster waiting to happen.”—Booklist "Perfect for readers wondering what their dream life would be like."—SLJ
Author | : M.F.K. Fisher |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1992-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0671755145 |
Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there.
Author | : James Thurber |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780060933081 |
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.
Author | : Susan Douglass |
Publisher | : IIIT |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1995-12 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 0787216232 |
Author | : Jane Darrah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
"A completely new selection of outstanding children's stories and poems compiled for enrichment reading by a distinguished editorial board of children's librarians."--Cover page.