Author: Almira Bailey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331378044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Excerpt from Vignettes of San Francisco IN the same way that the poets have loved Rome and made their pilgrimages there - as good Mos lems travel toward Mecca, so there are some of us who have come to San Francisco. Then when we ar rive and find it all that we have dreamed, our love for it becomes its highest tribute. And I don't know why it is sacrilege to mention Rome and San Francisco in the same breath. As for me I greatly prefer San F ran cisco, although I have never been to Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: I. A. Bunin
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483649477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Excerpt from The Gentleman From San Francisco: And Other Stories The gentleman from San Francisco - nobody either in Capri or Naples ever remembered his name - was setting out with his wife and daughter for the Old World, to Spend there two years of pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Gary Kamiya
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620401266
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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A kaleidoscopic tribute to San Francisco by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon explores specific city sites including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Land's End sea cliffs while tying his visits to key historical events. By the author of Shadow Knights. 30,000 first printing.
Author: John Miller
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811844390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A collection of writings about San Francisco from some of literature's most distinguished authors.
Author: Edward W. Townsend
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364160862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Excerpt from Chimmie Fadden: Major Max; And Other Stories The Other Stories were written for and first published in the San Francisco Argonaut. They are republished in this form by permission of Mr. Jerome A. Hart, editor of the Argonaut. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104145385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Thomas E. Flynn
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483855748
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Excerpt from The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp, Vol. 4: May 15th, 1880 If Christian ministers fear that a Play could batter the fortress of Christianity, then they seem to think very little of its intrinsic power. The Jew has no fear in his belief. To promote man's activity, to encourage him to think, and to put him in the way of thinking rightly, are plain duties, but to try to insert ready made Opinions into his mind is a slander upon the rights of man hood. The strangest thing of all is, that where nothing is perfect, there should exist men sufficiently simple minded to think of preachers as being such, when we have daily proof of their average delinquencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ruth Slonim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874220865
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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When initially published in 1965, Ruth Slonim's San Francisco: "The City" in Verse proved to be a classic. Imaginatively perceiving history and immediacy in vivid combination, this book was selected for the WSU Press Reprint Series in response to ongoing requests. These distinctive San Francisco vignettes by the author of four other books of poetry are pungent and evocative, having both historic and poetic importance.
Author: Thomas E. Flynn
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484547239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Excerpt from The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp, Vol. 4: September 27, 1879 Cur-ney (the aristocratic way of spelling it after this), has delivered in person his letter to the Sand-lot on Sunday last, and says Kellogg's agrees better with him than the wasp, who says he is a coward, and liar, and a blackguard; he promised to burn Grant in F. E. G., but when the time came, he run away like a cur with a tin pot to his tail. But Cur-ney has great friends in town among the militia, who went for the second time al ready, and shoot 38 times every time Grant's f.e.g. Out of two cannons on the Sand-lots. Cur-ney must be so glad! And now the wasp will have to take it all back. Mr. Center says that Brother Temple looks like a leader, to which Mr. Sax replied, yes, he has the lead in him to which our Dutch boarder said, he'll sing 'em a lied, and to which his wife said, leider! Harry Maynard, who broke a looney fel low's leg, which is not punishable by law, had himself roughly handled by the broken leg's brother, which is; so the broken leg's brother is arrested on bail and Harry is res ing on bed, getting ready for another break, may be. We are going to have a great time at resur rection and burying here. It seems they have buried the wrong man, and now they have to undo the whole thing and do it over again. They buried Schwartz where they ought to have buried Haskell, because they thought Haskell shot Schwartz, and Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Salmi Morse
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282096137
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Excerpt from The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp, Vol. 4: August 30, 1879 A soldier whom Gustavus Vasa had par doued for petty theft, responded to the King's rebuke, as to how he could imperil his head for so insignificant a sum as five francs. Sire, he responded promptly, I have oftener done it for five sous, - the sol diers' pay of the time. Gustavus asked of a pretty g1r1 going to church, whether she ever expected to get to Heaven. Not until I have paid my rent, aptly said the girl. Gustavus paid it. Mazarin asked of students an explanation, why a glass of champagne has a clearer ring than one filled with claret. We have not the means to test the experiment, was the laconic reply, and it had its effect. A grandiloquent speaker extolling his per sonal worth and services to Vespasian, plead for a pension. You have acted so nobly, said the Emperor, that only the gods can afford to pay you. The extent of our means extends only to the reward of wisdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
