Bill Arp's Peace Papers, Illust.
Author : Chas N. Smith
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Chas N. Smith
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Matt O'Brian
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368199919
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Bill Arp
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Reconstruction
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Author : Bill Arp
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570038358
A compendium of Southern witticisms by the Confederacy's most famous humorist First published in 1873, Bill Arp's Peace Papers, by Charles Henry Smith (1826-1903), is a collection of writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction by the Confederacy's most famous humorist. Smith, a lawyer in Rome, Georgia, took the penname "Bill Arp" in April 1861, following the firing on Fort Sumter, when he wrote a satiric response to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation ordering the Southern rebels to disperse within twenty days. In his letter addressed to "Mister Linkhorn" and written in the semiliterate backwoods dialect adopted by numerous mid-nineteenth-century humorists, Smith advised the president, "I tried my darndest yisterday to disperse and retire... but it was no go." The "Linkhorn" letter, reprinted in many Southern newspapers, was wildly popular across the South, and Smith followed it with dozens of other similarly comic pieces over the next few years, all signed by "Bill Arp." During the war he mocked Lincoln and praised the bravery and sacrifice of the Confederates, but he also turned a disapproving eye on those Southerners--from draft dodgers to Georgia governor Joe Brown--whose actions he viewed as detrimental to the war effort. Following the war he turned his attention to criticizing Reconstruction efforts to reshape Southern race relations. Later Smith collected the best of these pieces in Bill Arp's Peace Papers, a valuable example of the Southern conservative perspective on the Civil War and Reconstruction era. This Southern Classics edition makes Smith's witticisms as Arp available once more, augmented with a new introduction by Georgia historian David B. Parker, which places the writings and their author in historical and literary context.
Author : Charles Henry Smith
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1873
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Page : 1972 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Miriam Coles Harris
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618168217
If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's work, or see a year's bestsellers at a glance, The Chronology of American Literature is the perfect resource. At once an authoritative reference and an ideal browser's guide, this book outlines the indispensable information in America's rich literary past--from major publications to lesser-known gems--while also identifying larger trends along the literary timeline. Who wrote the first published book in America? When did Edgar Allan Poe achieve notoriety as a mystery writer? What was Hemingway's breakout title? With more than 8,000 works by 5,000 authors, The Chronology makes it easy to find answers to these questions and more. Authors and their works are grouped within each year by category: fiction and nonfiction; poems; drama; literary criticism; and publishing events. Short, concise entries describe an author's major works for a particular year while placing them within the larger context of that writer's career. The result is a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of some of America's most prominent writers. Perhaps most important, The Chronology offers an invaluable line through our literary past, tying literature to the American experience--war and peace, boom and bust, and reaction to social change. You'll find everything here from Benjamin Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on Electricity," to Davy Crockett's first memoir; from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" to Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; from meditations by James Weldon Johnson and James Agee to poetry by Elizabeth Bishop. Also included here are seminal works by authors such as Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Lavishly illustrated--and rounded out with handy bestseller lists throughout the twentieth century, lists of literary awards and prizes, and authors' birth and death dates--The Chronology of American Literature belongs on the shelf of every bibliophile and literary enthusiast. It is the essential link to our literary past and present.
Author : George Washington Owen
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Sarah Bridges Stebbins
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1877
Category : American fiction
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