Billy Sunday And Other Poems

Unexpurgated and uncollected poems, many of which remained unpublished because their language was too raw, their attitude and politics too daring. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick; photographs.

Billy Sunday and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Hendrick, George

Hendrick, Willene

SANDBURG, Carl

Poetry

Mariner Books

Remembrances of Concord and the Thoreaus: Letters of Horace Hosmer to Dr. S. A. Jones

Hosmer, Horace

Business & Money

University of Illinois Press

Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees encountered at least some racism among Canadian citizens, many of those same refugees also thrived under the auspices of the Canadian government, which worked to protect blacks from the U.S. slaveowners who sought to re-enslave them. This work brings to light the life stories of several nineteenth-century black refugees who managed to survive in their new country by gaining work as barbers, postal carriers, washerwomen, waiters, cab owners, ministers, newspaper editors, and physicians. The book begins with a short historical account of blacks in Canada from 1629 until the early 1800s, when the first groups of escaped slaves began to enter the country.

Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery

History

Africa

McFarland

In 1965 Katherine Anne Porter won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for the culmination of her life's work, the Collected Stories. Almost from the beginning of her career in the 1920s, Porter enjoyed the respect of fellow writers and of critics, who admired her disciplined prose and ability to create works that probe the psychological motivations of human behavior within a moral context. A master practitioner within the confines of a distinctly American art form--the short story--and its more continental cousin--the novella--Porter has fascinated readers with her complex and haunting works, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," "Flowering Judas," and Ship of Fools. Updating an important study published more than twenty years ago while the elusive Porter was still writing, George and Willene Hendrick now survey her entire body of work. Drawing on significant biographical evidence revealed since Porter's death in 1980, the Hendricks devote special attention to the connections between Porter's art and life, in particular the use of her Southern heritage and fascination with Mexico in her fiction. Although the authors concentrate on the short fiction, they also offer careful analysis of Porter's only novel--the allegorical Ship of Fools--and of her numerous political essays, occasional pieces, and uncompleted projects. "Katherine Anne Porter, Revised Edition" delineates Porter's artistic development and illustrates how her finely wrought stories transcended regional and national boundaries. A Detailed chronology and bibliography are included.

Katherine Anne Porter (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

Katherine Anne Porter

New College & Univ Pr

James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony

This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United States.
Between his Army enlistment in 1939 and the wound that sent him to a Memphis hospital in 1943, James Jones suffered the loss of both his mother and his father, a victim of suicide. Psychologically precarious, Jones drank heavily, often brawling in bars. Concerned about his erratic behavior, his aunt took Jones to meet Lowney Handy, who took virtual control of his life, securing his discharge from the army and, with her husband Harry, inviting him into their home. Lowney became Jones’s writing teacherand his lover.
An aspiring but unpublished writer when she began the Handy Writers’ Colony in Marshall, Illinois, Lowney Handy developed a reputation as an inspirational teacher of writing. Her husband, an oil refinery executive from nearby Robinson, supported her in this endeavor, which proved quite successful. The Handy colony achieved national attention through the success of Jones, its most celebrated member and the author of From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running.

Howe, Helen

Sackrider, Don

Southern Illinois University Press

This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United States.
Between his Army enlistment in 1939 and the wound that sent him to a Memphis hospital in 1943, James Jones suffered the loss of both his mother and his father, a victim of suicide. Psychologically precarious, Jones drank heavily, often brawling in bars. Concerned about his erratic behavior, his aunt took Jones to meet Lowney Handy, who took virtual control of his life, securing his discharge from the army and, with her husband Harry, inviting him into their home. Lowney became Jones’s writing teacherand his lover.
An aspiring but unpublished writer when she began the Handy Writers’ Colony in Marshall, Illinois, Lowney Handy developed a reputation as an inspirational teacher of writing. Her husband, an oil refinery executive from nearby Robinson, supported her in this endeavor, which proved quite successful. The Handy colony achieved national attention through the success of Jones, its most celebrated member and the author of From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running.

These delightful tales are true-to-life, authentic descriptions of tracking animals in the wild!

Dolphins In Danger (Adventures of Riley)

Children's Books

Lumry, Amanda

Hurwitz, Laura

Animals

Eaglemont Pr Books

A tale of revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship and the story of the slaves' heroic leader, Madison Washington.

The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship

Ivan R. Dee

Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still

Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. A colorful yet balanced portrait. —William L. Van Deburg

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

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