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This 1895 volume visits the literary haunts and homes of such American writers as Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whitman, and many, many more. The author spent months visiting the places he writes about in this volume, the influence of these places upon their occupants is made clear by Wolfe. Locations include The Wayside Inn, Concord, Massachusetts, The Orchard House, The Berkshires, family homes, and more.
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These five recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.
This volume contains readings by James Baldwin from Giovanni's Room and Another Country, exploring the challenges of being black and gay in mid-twentieth century America. William Styron reads about...
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These four recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.
In this collection, James Baldwin reads from Giovanni's Room and Another Country, exploring the challenges of being black and gay in mid-twentieth century America. William Styron reads about a...
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These four recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.Nelson Algren reads from his most famous novel, The Man with the Golden Arm, about the decline and fall of a drug dealer and card sharp. Bernard Malamud's devastating selection from The Magic Barrel...
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"Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Esten Cooke, Bayard Taylor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, George William Curtis, Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Osgood, Thomas Buchanan Read, George P. Marsh, Henry W. Bellows, Roswell D. Hitchcock, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, William Allen Butler, Alice B. Haven, George S. Hillard, William H. Burleigh, Edward S....
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At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides-like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge...
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Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's second novel, deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy-an encounter that left him deeply...
13) Philip Roth Reading from Letting Go: From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1
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Made early in Roth's career, this is from his first novel, Letting Go. Set in the 1950s, it portrays the social constraints of the period as they affect several graduate students at critical points in their lives. The scene Roth reads shows the rather diffident Paul Herz confronted by two of his ancient rooming-house neighbors who have a favor to ask. As the critic John Ciardi wrote, "Three actors with separately trained voices could not have read...
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New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, the gathering place of artists, writers, and musicians, is the setting of Another Country, Baldwin's third novel. The characters, all involved in complex interracial relationships, cluster around Rufus, a jazz musician whose suicide affects them profoundly. For Baldwin, Rufus represents "the black corpse floating in the national psyche." Baldwin's first reading on this recording portrays Rufus' state of mind...
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The Thin Red Line, Jones' second war novel, is set in Guadalcanal and is notable for its explicit and harrowing depiction of battle. As in From Here to Eternity, its characters are enlisted men and officers who feel trapped in a situation they can neither control nor often understand. The book is a telling commentary on the violence done to soldiers, as well as by them.
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The troubled infantryman Robert E. Lee Prewitt, one of the key characters in James Jones' From Here to Eternity, is a former boxer and passionate bugler. His independence and intransigence lead to conflicts with his superior officers and ultimately to his tragic end.
In this recording, Jones reads the famous scene where Prewitt plays Taps at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The passage is a masterpiece of writing, in which Taps becomes "the requiem of...
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Lie Down in Darkness traces the tragic fate of a Southern family with acute sensitivity, in a style that mirrors the inner lives of its four major characters. The parents are estranged, with each favoring one of their two daughters. The father dotes on Peyton, the family beauty, while the mother is devoted to Maudie, the disabled child. Told in flashbacks, opens with Peyton's funeral after her emotional unraveling and suicide. The passage Styron reads...
18) Mark Twain
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Mark Twain's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Twain is best known for authoring The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its famous sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This title also...
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John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Samuel Langhorne Clemens, A/K/A Mark Twain, brings the fascinating life of America's most famous humorist to you in vivid, captivating detail. His time – 1840s-1910 America. Wagon trains moving west; California gold rush; telegraph invented; War between the States; Lincoln assassinated; the golden spike; Custer massacred; the trail of tears; invention of electric light, the telephone and the automobile;...
20) Langston Hughes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Langston Hughes's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Hughes-poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist-is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This...