Echoes Down the Corridor

Echoes Down the Corridor
Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2001-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0142000051

For some fifty years now, Arthur Miller has been not only America's premier playwright, but also one of our foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. Echoes Down the Corridor gathers together a dazzling array of more than forty previously uncollected essays and works of reportage. Here is Arthur Miller, the brilliant social and political commentator-but here, too, Miller the private man behind the internationally renowned public figure.Witty and wise, rich in artistry and insight, Echoes Down the Corridor reaffirms Arthur Miller's standing as one of the greatest writers of our time.

The Crucible

The Crucible
Author: Coles Publishing Company. Editorial Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1983
Genre: Miller, Arthur, 1915
ISBN: 9780774030212

A literary study guide that includes summaries and commentaries.

Nineteen eighty-four

Nineteen eighty-four
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.

A White Heron

A White Heron
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: Trond Knutsen
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1886
Genre: New England
ISBN:

The Crucible of War, 1939-1945

The Crucible of War, 1939-1945
Author: Brereton Greenhous
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1148
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802005748

The RCAF, with a total strength of 4061 officers and men on 1 September 1939, grew by the end of the war to a strength of more than 263,000 men and women. This important and well-illustrated new history shows how they contributed to the resolution of the most significant conflict of our time.

The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1504080246

The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Crucible

Crucible
Author: James Rollins
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9780062874573

Arriving home, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. His one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak.

The Treasure in the Forest

The Treasure in the Forest
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781496198204

The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deeper green of the virgin forest showed its course down the distant hill slope. The forest here came close to the beach. Far beyond, dim and almost cloudlike in texture, rose the mountains, like suddenly frozen waves. The sea was still save for an almost imperceptible swell. The sky blazed.

The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume I

The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume I
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780870231315

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1888-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. This is the first volume of three and incorporates correspondence from 1877 to 1934.