Recollections Grave and Gay (Classic Reprint)

Recollections Grave and Gay (Classic Reprint)
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 033281680X
ISBN-13 : 9780332816807
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Recollections Grave and Gay (Classic Reprint) by : Mrs. Burton Harrison

Excerpt from Recollections Grave and Gay She was by him inspired with the love of letters and habit of authorship that marked her in later years, when Mrs. Cary's novels, essays, and poems enjoyed considerable vogue. My father always spoke to me admiringly Of his good mother's literary achieve ments, when, as a very little girl perched upon his knee, I listened in charmed awe to the tales Of a grandmamma who was a real live author, publishing every scrap Of ms. As fast as she wrote it; and said by the critics to combine the style of Hannah More with a grace and humor all her own. When I tried to read her books it must be owned that I thought them rather too grave and sermon-like for human nature's daily food. Not until many years had gone over my head did I appreciate them at their rightful value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Confederate Citadel

Confederate Citadel
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9780813179285
ISBN-13 : 0813179289
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Confederate Citadel by : Mary A. DeCredico

Richmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Unlike other Southern cities, Richmond boasted a vibrant, urban industrial complex capable of producing crucial ammunition and military supplies. Despite its northern position, Richmond became the Confederacy's beating heart—its capital, second-largest city, and impenetrable citadel. As long as the city endured, the Confederacy remained a well-supplied and formidable force. But when Ulysses S. Grant broke its defenses in 1865, the Confederates fled, burned Richmond to the ground, and surrendered within the week. Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War. Here, barricaded against a siege, staunch Unionists became a dangerous fifth column, refugees flooded the streets, and women organized a bread riot in the city. Drawing on personal correspondence, private diaries, and newspapers, author Mary A. DeCredico spotlights the human elements of Richmond's economic rise and fall, uncovering its significance as the South's industrial powerhouse throughout the Civil War.

Recollections of a Humourist

Recollections of a Humourist
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 048417973X
ISBN-13 : 9780484179737
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis Recollections of a Humourist by : Arthur William À. Beckett

Excerpt from Recollections of a Humourist: Grave and Gay During my life I have had the opportunity of coming across all sorts and conditions of men. I trust that my experiences will prove a source of amusement, and even of instruction, to those kind enough to follow them. If unamusing and uninstructive pages are discovered, they may be set down, with the author's sanction, as the grave part of the volume. It has been a great delight to me to write this book. I venture to pray that it will give equal pleasure to those who read it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Five Forks

Five Forks
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Publisher : MSU Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781628952278
ISBN-13 : 162895227X
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Forks by : Robert Alexander

The Battle of Five Forks was one of the the last battles of the American Civil War. A week later, Lee surrendered. Two weeks later, Lincoln was dead. In this meditation on that battle, Alexander juxtaposes the story of the battle, which he tells through narrative, letters, and journal entries, with his own impressions, viewing the South through Northern eyes. In addition, he views contemporary American society through the story of the Civil War and specifically through the story of Five Forks. If it is true that we meet our past coming to us out of the future, then, Alexander posits, America is still grappling with issues unresolved by the Civil War. Those issues are not just the obvious ones of race and class, or of North vs. South, but also the more ephemeral issues surrounding the mythos Americans live by. Alexander is not a historian, and this is much more a literary work than a battle story. However, the immediacy with which Alexander tells his tale leads the reader to experience Five Forks—the land, the smells, the cries—as if present there in 1865. Thus, he does not just describe a battle; he captures the spirit of all battles, all wars.

Pen of Fire

Pen of Fire
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Publisher : Kent State University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0873387368
ISBN-13 : 9780873387361
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Pen of Fire by : Peter Bridges

"This fascinating first biography of Daniel incorporates much new research, including correspondence between foreign ministers in Turin and their envoys in Washington and a series of private letters between John Daniel and his great uncle Peter Vivian Daniel of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Secretary of War John Floyd, and others.

The Publisher

The Publisher
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Total Pages : 836
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HXNY7P
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The Cumulative Book Index

The Cumulative Book Index
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Total Pages : 892
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015078051847
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Synopsis The Cumulative Book Index by :

A world list of books in the English language.

Generations Women in the South

Generations Women in the South
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Publisher : The Institute for Southern Studies
Total Pages : 124
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Synopsis Generations Women in the South by : Joy Elvey Lamm

The time has come, Lillian Smith wrote in 1962, for women to risk the "great and daring creative act" of discovering and articulating their own identity. Three years later, Southern women of a younger generation, fortified by the skills and self-respect earned in the black civil-rights movement, issued the first manifesto of a new feminism. Their words landed with explosive force, setting off cultural reverberations which have shaken the lives of men and women alike. A little more than a decade after that, this issue of Southern Exposure began to take form. Its creation has taken us back into history and deep into the meaning of our own lives. As we set out to understand the situation of Southern women, we found ourselves "in search of our mothers' gardens." We found ourselves naming an experience we share across the generations. "So many of the stories that I write," Alice Walker discovered, "are my mother's stories." To speak in our own voices, we had first to give expression to a "promise song" that has been there all along.

The United States Catalog

The United States Catalog
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Total Pages : 894
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:L0096692454
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Synopsis The United States Catalog by : Ida M. Lynn