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Translation of a selection of very short stories. The author is one of Hungary's best-known post-war writers, and the translator has previously translated works by Peter Esterhezy and Endre Ady.
Author : István Örkény
Publisher :
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Short stories, Hungarian
ISBN : 9780646155203
Translation of a selection of very short stories. The author is one of Hungary's best-known post-war writers, and the translator has previously translated works by Peter Esterhezy and Endre Ady.
Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0393635252
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
Author : John Grafton
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486847594
Includes "The Eyes of the Panther," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe; "Luck," Mark Twain; "The Dilettante," Edith Wharton; more.
Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 149307220X
Great American War Stories is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of battles great and small throughout history. Capturing all the elements of ancient and powerful tragedy, this book is chock-full of thrilling tales of war—as well as a frightful examination of man's darkest impulses—allowing the reader a gruesome glimpse behind the veil of honor and bravery that history often ascribes to soldiers and their leaders. These are all stories that have endured the test of time and have attracted discerning readers for generations.
Author : Mildred Stapley Byne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387058152
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Readers
ISBN :
A primer relating many interesting episodes in United States history. Ease of reading is enhanced with a controlled vocabulary and short sentences; many words are divided into syllables to help readers sound out unfamiliar words.
Author : Louis Albert Banks
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Collection of stories and anecdotes highlighting incidents in the lives of well-known American personalities.
Author : Rana DiOrio
Publisher : Little Pickle Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781492683803
An engaging picture book for children that celebrates what it means to be American--regardless of politics What does it mean to be American? Does it mean you like apple pie or fireworks? Not exactly. While politics seem to divide our country into the two opposing teams of red and blue, one truth remains: we are all Americans. But what does that mean? This continuation of the popular What Does It Mean to Be...? series provides a nonpartisan point of view perfect for any and all Americans who are proud of who they are--and where they come from, regardless of their political views. Other Titles in the What Does It Mean to Be...? Series: What Does It Mean to Be Present? What Does It Mean to Be Global? What Does It Mean to Be Kind?
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486466027
Sixteen spine-tingling tales from the dark side of our nation's literary history include "The Gray Champion" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, plus fables by Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Mark Twain, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Frank R. Stockton, Parke Godwin, and others.
Author : Lamar Underwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493069098
The Civil War Relived in 40 Stories! Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict, bringing the victories and defeats, the valor and the heartbreak, alive with personal intensity. Includes entries by: Ambrose Bierce Stephan Crane Mark Twain Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Walt Whitman Frederick L. Hitchcock Louisa May Alcott Carlton McCarthy Abner Doubleday Theodore Roosevelt and many others.