The Town and the City
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher :
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Beat generation
ISBN : 9780704320239
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher :
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Beat generation
ISBN : 9780704320239
Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 1852
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 1950
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780156907903
Set in a New England town, a family including three daughters and five sons, each endowed with an energy and vision of life, drives the narrative from the early part of the century to the years following World War II.
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504033965
A quintessential American family is pulled apart by war and the rapidly changing tides of society in Jack Kerouac’s captivating first novel Published seven years before his iconic On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s debut novel follows the experiences of one family as they navigate the seismic cultural shifts following World War II. Inspired by Kerouac’s own New England youth, the eight Martin children enjoy an idyllic upbringing in a small Massachusetts mill-town. Middle son Peter, a budding intellectual and promising athlete, most strongly feels the lure of the future. When war breaks out, the siblings’ lives are interrupted by military service; their parents must sell their house after the family business goes bankrupt; and Peter, eager to see the world, voyages overseas as a Merchant Marine. After returning home, Peter is drawn to the kinetic energy of New York City and the progressive, bohemian ideas springing from its denizen young poets, writers, and artists. His new friends are fictionalized versions of Kerouac’s contemporaries: Allen Ginsberg (as Leon Levinsky), Lucien Carr (as Kenneth Wood), and William Burroughs (as Will Dennison), and other members of the Beat Generation. Seen by Peter’s parents as hoodlums and junkies, the Beats challenge conventional American ideas of everything from authority and religion to marriage and domestic life.
Author : Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Rhode Island
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1765
Category : Archives
ISBN :
Author : Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Alburg (Vt. : Town)
ISBN :
Author : Levi Lemont
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368809946
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Philip J. Waller
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192891631
By the outbreak of the First World War, England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 percent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in English urban society had taken place. This book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of those developments - conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities, and seaside resorts. Waller assesses the importance of London, the provincial cities, and manufacturing centers. He also examines the continuing influence of the small country town and "rural" England on political, economic, and cultural growth. Scholarly and readable, this book is a general social history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England, seen from an urban perspective.
Author : Page Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : City and town life
ISBN :