American Classics
Download American Classics full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free American Classics ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : GREAT. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781854350077 |
An illustrated overview of the life and works of a selected number of important writers in the English language from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781529004984 |
Author | : Booker T. Washington |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2007-02-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0486457575 |
"This Dover edition ...is an original compilation of unabridged editions of the following works"--T.p. verso.
Author | : J. D. Salinger |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2024-06-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holden is deeply troubled by the "phoniness" of the adult world and is haunted by the death of his younger brother, Allie, which has left a lasting impact on him. He fantasizes about being "the catcher in the rye," a guardian who saves children from losing their innocence by catching them before they fall off a cliff into adulthooda. The novel ends with Holden in a mental institution, where he is being treated for a nervous breakdown. He expresses some hope for the future, indicating a possible path to recovery..
Author | : Jeremiah Tower |
Publisher | : Harpercollins |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780061818783 |
Features nearly 250 new versions of classic recipes created by the former head chef of Chez Panisse and based on fresh local ingredients available in today's markets
Author | : Carl J Richard |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009-07-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0674054490 |
In a masterful study Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers. The Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system in a way that steadily eroded the preeminence of the classics.
Author | : Judith P. Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9781618115928 |
This book examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Individual essays address figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Billy Collins, targeting a variety of fitness-related issues--courtship, nepotism, competition, cooperation, status, and deception, for example--in the context of both physical and social environment.
Author | : George M. Thomson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. Jerry Weiss |
Publisher | : Signet |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780451530219 |
Featuring Essays by Benjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Mark Twain • Erma Bombeck • Abraham Lincoln • John F. Kennedy • and More... These are Americans who had something important to say—and said it in powerful, convincing ways. A compendium of commentary, criticism, and oratory excellence from throughout the nation’s history, The Signet Book of American Essays is a perfect resource for those searching for the most timeless essays ever conceived by America’s notable scientists, philosophers, politicians, and writers. From the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin to the outspoken empowerment of Gloria Steinem, from the biting satire of Mark Twain to the grave seriousness of Franklin D. Roosevelt, this collection offers the opportunity to learn the subtle arts of persuasion and rational argument as exemplified in these great American dissertations crafted by some of the country’s most brilliant and intriguing citizens.
Author | : Denis Donoghue |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300133782 |
How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short list of “relative” classics--works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise, and hyperbole. Donoghue bestows the term classic on just five American works: Melville’s Moby-Dick, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau’s Walden, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examining each in a separate chapter, he discusses how the writings have been received and interpreted, and he offers his own contemporary readings, suggesting, for example, that in the post–9/11 era, Moby-Dick may be rewardingly read as a revenge tragedy. Donoghue extends an irresistible invitation to open the pages of these American classics again, demonstrating with wit and acuity how very much they have to say to us now.