A Study Guide for Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware"

A Study Guide for Harold Frederic's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 31
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ISBN-10 : 9781410343628
ISBN-13 : 1410343626
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Synopsis A Study Guide for Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son
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Total Pages : 564
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433074954730
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Synopsis Dombey and Son by : Charles Dickens

Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........

The Market-place

The Market-place
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Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435009968025
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Synopsis The Market-place by : Harold Frederic

Medieval Crossover

Medieval Crossover
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0268206570
ISBN-13 : 9780268206574
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Medieval Crossover by : Barbara Newman

Newman highlights the ways in which the premodern reader understood sacred and secular not as opposing points but as a state of double judgment.

The Englishman's Boy

The Englishman's Boy
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Publisher : Emblem Editions
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781551995700
ISBN-13 : 1551995700
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Englishman's Boy by : Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Englishman’s Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West – the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe’s rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era – with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers – provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter – “the Englishman’s boy” – whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.

Resisting Regionalism

Resisting Regionalism
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Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015002689520
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Synopsis Resisting Regionalism by : Donna M. Campbell

Despite such prickly themes, according to Donna Campbell, local color fiction "fulfilled some specific needs of the public - for nostalgia, for a retreat into mildly exotic locales, for a semblance of order preserved in ritual.".

Hanging Together

Hanging Together
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780300129823
ISBN-13 : 0300129823
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Synopsis Hanging Together by : John Higham

This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans. The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other.

Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States

Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 2849
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ISBN-10 : 9781442244320
ISBN-13 : 1442244321
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Synopsis Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States by : George Thomas Kurian

From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in the United States—from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in inspiring art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful five-volume reference work includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States, influential religious documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, the significant role of women, racial issues, civil religion, and more. The first volume opens with introductory essays that provide snapshots of Christianity in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as a statistical profile and a timeline of key dates and events. Entries are organized from A to Z. The final volume closes with essays exploring impressions of Christianity in the United States from other faiths and other parts of the world, as well as a select yet comprehensive bibliography. Appendices help readers locate entries by thematic section and author, and a comprehensive index further aids navigation.