Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings (LOA #118) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings (LOA #118) write by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This book was released on 2000-08-28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings (LOA #118) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No American writer of the nineteenth century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over twenty-five years, The Library of America offers a full-scale literary portrait of America’s greatest popular poet. Here are the poems that created an American mythology: Evangeline in the forest primeval, Hiawatha by the shores of Gitche Gumee, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, the wreck of the Hesperus, the village blacksmith under the spreading chestnut tree, the strange courtship of Miles Standish, the maiden Priscilla and the hesitant John Alden; verses like “A Psalm of Life” and “The Children’s Hour,” whose phrases and characters have become part of the culture. Here as well, along with the public antislavery poems, are the sparer, darker lyrics—"The Fire of Drift-Wood," “Mezzo Cammin,” “Snow-Flakes,” and many others—that show a more austere aspect of Longfellow’s poetic gift. Erudite and fluent in many languages, Longfellow was endlessly fascinated with the byways of history and the curiosities of legend. As a verse storyteller he had no peer, whether in the great book-length narratives such as Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha (both included in full) or the stories collected in Tales of a Wayside Inn (reprinted here in a generous selection). His many poems on literary themes, such as his moving homages to Dante and Chaucer, his verse translations from Lope de Vega, Heinrich Heine, and Michelangelo, and his ambitious verse dramas, notably The New England Tragedies (also complete), are remarkable in their range and ambition. As a special feature, this volume restores to print Longfellow’s novel Kavanagh, a study of small-town life and literary ambition that was praised by Emerson as an important contribution to the development of American fiction. A selection of essays rounds out of the volume and provides testimony of Longfellow’s concern with creating an American national literature. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Poems
Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poems write by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This book was released on 1857. Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244)
Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244) write by Ring Lardner. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America’s most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, You Know Me Al, Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American speech. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of the American scene. His best stories—among them such masterpieces as “Haircut,” “The Golden Honeymoon,” “A Caddy’s Diary,” and “The Love Nest”—cast a devastating eye on the hypocrisies, prejudices, and petty scheming of everyday life. In this Library of America edition, editor Ian Frazier surveys the whole sweep of Lardner’s talents, offering contemporary readers his finest stories, the full texts of You Know Me Al, The Big Town, and the long out-of-print The Real Dope, and a generous sampling of his humor pieces, sports reporting, song lyrics, and surrealist playlets. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247)
William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247) write by William Wells Brown. This book was released on 2014-02-20. William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A showcase of the extraordinary career America’s first Black novelist and pivotal figure in African American literature “It is difficult to imagine any one of his contemporaries who contributed as much or as richly to so many genres.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr. Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814–1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that made him, like Frederick Douglass, a foundational figure of African American literature. His controversial novel Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter (1853), a fictionalized account of the lives and struggles of Thomas Jefferson’s black daughters and granddaughters, is the first novel written by an African American. This Library of America volume brings it together with Brown’s other groundbreaking works: Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847), his first published book and an immediate bestseller, which describes his childhood, life in slavery, and eventual escape; later memoirs charting his life during the Civil War and Reconstruction; the first play (The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom, 1858), travelogue (The American Fugitive in Europe, 1855), and history (The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements, 1862) written by an African American; and eighteen speeches and public letters from the 1840s, 50s, and 60s, many collected here for the first time. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Brotherwood
Brotherwood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brotherwood write by Gregory B. Williams. This book was released on 2004-10. Brotherwood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Solomon Woods is a handsome and intelligent, single parent, living in the suburbs of Detroit, working as an automotive design engineer. He appears to have all matters of his live in order, but a closer look into the more intimate details of his live reveals his deepest secrets. The lure of drugs, money, and enigmatic women, versus his desire to maintain a relationship with God, and hide his secrets from his teenaged son Isaiah; keeps him shackled in a state of spiritual and emotional unrest. A Father and Engineer by day. Drug dealer by night? Brotherwood will thrust you into an emotional journey inspired by the real life events of author Gregory B. Williams, who in March of 2000 found himself centered in the crossfire of the War on Drugs. He shares how he was sucked into a downward spiral of drug deals, deceit, lust, and eventually introduced to what he describes as Cincinnatis Elite Corrupt Police Division.
