Author: Annan Jazz Von
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499099185
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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This book is a passage of stories carried out in poetry style on the journey I’ve been through while I was growing up and all the negatives I learned to turn into something positive. Something is better than nothing, making the most of all. I’d like to share all the thoughts I had while developing as a child to an adult to help teenagers and ones in need experience hard times by expressing though out my poetic diary.
Author: Caroline Cowles Richards
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Category : Canandaigua (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Murdo Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith's literary creations. Dismissed from his job as a bank teller, Murdo tries to write, but cannot get beyond the first sentence. Murdo has a wild and fertile imagination, and, much to the incomprehension of his long-suffering wife, Janet, sets out to convert all he meets to his bizarre philosophy and unique vision of the world. Murdo's surreal and often hilarious antics, however, mask much deeper questions about his inadequacy in the face of social convention and his own spiritual turmoil. It is this juxtaposition of tragicomic elements, together with the fact that Murdo is in so many ways the alter ego of his creator, that brings real poignancy to these stories and confirms Iain Crichton Smith as one of Scotland's most versatile literary talents of modern times. This volume contains the two publications, "Murdo and Other Stories" and "Thoughts of Murdo." It also includes another substantial piece, the autobiographical "Life of Murdo," which is published in book form here for the first time.
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Dismissed from his job as a bank clerk Murdo sets out to convert all he meets to his extraordinary philosophy and unique vision of the world. As part of his antics he creates the even more extraordinary figure of Sam Spaid of Portree - the religious private detective.
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: Lucretia Mott
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026744
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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This landmark volume makes widely available for the first time the correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Coffin Mott. Scrupulously reproduced and annotated, these letters illustrate the length and breadth of her public life as a leading reformer while providing an intimate glimpse of her family life. Dedicated to reform of almost every kind--temperance, peace, equal rights, woman suffrage, nonresistance, and the abolition of slavery--Mott viewed woman's rights as only one element of a broad-based reform agenda for American society. A founder and leader of many antislavery organizations, including the racially integrated American Antislavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society, she housed fugitive slaves, maintained lifelong friendships with such African-American colleagues as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, and agitated to bring her fellow Quakers into consensus on taking a stand against slavery. Mott was a seasoned activist by 1848 when she helped to organize the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, whose resolutions called for equal treatment of women in all arenas. Mott tried to pursue a neutral course when her friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony disagreed with other woman's rights leaders over the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed equal rights for freedmen but not for any women. Her private views on this breach within the woman's movement emerge for the first time in these letters. An active public life, however, is only half the story of this dedicated and energetic woman. Mott and her husband of fifty-six years, James, raised five children to adulthood, and her letters to other reformers and fellow Quakers are interspersed with the informal "hurried scraps" she wrote to and about her cherished family. An invaluable resource on an extraordinary woman, these selected letters reveal the incisive mind, clear sense of mission, and level-headed personality that made Lucretia Coffin Mott a natural leader and a major force in nineteenth-century American life.
Author: Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
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Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family structure, and the matriarchal family was but a myth.
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 2262
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Author: Caroline Cowles Richards
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Category : Canandaigua (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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