Author: Russel E. Higgins
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412030129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The History of Wally Stokes is the hilarious story of an unlikely hero who finds himself caught up in the turbulent events of a big city during the Great Depression. The setting is Hudson City, a New Jersey working-class city during the harsh winter of 1936. The whimsical mock-epic narrative is filled with fast-talking theatrical impresarios, over-the-hill vaudevillians, boarding-house eccentrics, inept union leaders, oddball newspaper writers, and a odd collection of felonious capitalists, blue-collar workers, and common vagabonds. Into this free-for-all steps Wally Stokes, a retiring correspondence-school graduate, whose life unexpectedly transformed on day in the waiting room of the Hudson City Evening Gazette.
The History of Wally Stokes
Author: Russel E. Higgins
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412030129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The History of Wally Stokes is the hilarious story of an unlikely hero who finds himself caught up in the turbulent events of a big city during the Great Depression. The setting is Hudson City, a New Jersey working-class city during the harsh winter of 1936. The whimsical mock-epic narrative is filled with fast-talking theatrical impresarios, over-the-hill vaudevillians, boarding-house eccentrics, inept union leaders, oddball newspaper writers, and a odd collection of felonious capitalists, blue-collar workers, and common vagabonds. Into this free-for-all steps Wally Stokes, a retiring correspondence-school graduate, whose life unexpectedly transformed on day in the waiting room of the Hudson City Evening Gazette.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412030129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The History of Wally Stokes is the hilarious story of an unlikely hero who finds himself caught up in the turbulent events of a big city during the Great Depression. The setting is Hudson City, a New Jersey working-class city during the harsh winter of 1936. The whimsical mock-epic narrative is filled with fast-talking theatrical impresarios, over-the-hill vaudevillians, boarding-house eccentrics, inept union leaders, oddball newspaper writers, and a odd collection of felonious capitalists, blue-collar workers, and common vagabonds. Into this free-for-all steps Wally Stokes, a retiring correspondence-school graduate, whose life unexpectedly transformed on day in the waiting room of the Hudson City Evening Gazette.
A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans
Author: Will Thomas Hale
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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1st Street Viaduct and Street Widening Project
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The History of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Author: Walter Benjamin Palmer
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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The Delineator
Author: R. S. O'Loughlin
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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History of Santa Barbara County, California
Author: Michael James Phillips
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Category : Santa Barbara County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Santa Barbara County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Author: Frances Anne Kemble
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307829677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English theater in the nineteenth century. During a triumphant tour of America, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family’s vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage, she spent several months (December 1838 to April 1839) living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters, and it was not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from her husband and living in England, were they published. She is a reporter par excellence and records in vivid detail not just her own reactions, but the day-to-day operations of the estate as a business enterprise, the lives of the several “classes” of Negro slaves and their white masters, and the plantation’s landscape of swamps and woods, canals and rivers, stately houses and decrepit hovels. Her account is filled with drama: duels, deaths, jealousies, and episodes of humor and tenderness which lighten the gloom but also accentuate the sadness of a world of toil and misery.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307829677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English theater in the nineteenth century. During a triumphant tour of America, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family’s vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage, she spent several months (December 1838 to April 1839) living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters, and it was not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from her husband and living in England, were they published. She is a reporter par excellence and records in vivid detail not just her own reactions, but the day-to-day operations of the estate as a business enterprise, the lives of the several “classes” of Negro slaves and their white masters, and the plantation’s landscape of swamps and woods, canals and rivers, stately houses and decrepit hovels. Her account is filled with drama: duels, deaths, jealousies, and episodes of humor and tenderness which lighten the gloom but also accentuate the sadness of a world of toil and misery.
Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Woman's Who's who of America
Author: John W. Leonard
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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