Author: Helen Wilmans Post
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Category : Mental healing
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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A Blossom of the Century
Author: Helen Wilmans Post
Publisher:
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Category : Mental healing
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Publisher:
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Category : Mental healing
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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I Saw a Century Blossom
Author: Frank J Fitzgerald
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504075897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Brooklyn plumber born at the turn of the twentieth century looks back on his life in this 1984 memoir. Frank J. Fitzgerald was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1902. As a teenager, he took a job as a plumber to support his family, and grew up quickly. His personal life and work gave way to many fascinating and unusual experiences. Now, in I Saw a Century Blossom, Fitzgerald recounts his storied years, tracing a path through pivotal events of the twentieth century and sharing a view of old New York not often seen in history books. Fitzgerald begins his account as the dust is still settling from the Spanish–American War and Theodore Roosevelt has taken office as president of the United States. He concludes with the 1980 presidential election. His perspective allows readers to see what happened in everyday life while countries fought world wars and disasters struck, like the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and the Black Tom explosion. Along the way, he experiences technological advents like modern plumbing. Tag along for his first job as a plumber, back when many employers were unwilling to hire Irish Americans. Meet Fitzgerald’s interesting family and even see what a boy does for fun in early-twentieth-century Brooklyn, like swim in the East River. With stories that are sure to charm and entertain. I Saw a Century Blossom is a great choice for readers interested in New York City history and daily life during the early 1900s.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504075897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Brooklyn plumber born at the turn of the twentieth century looks back on his life in this 1984 memoir. Frank J. Fitzgerald was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1902. As a teenager, he took a job as a plumber to support his family, and grew up quickly. His personal life and work gave way to many fascinating and unusual experiences. Now, in I Saw a Century Blossom, Fitzgerald recounts his storied years, tracing a path through pivotal events of the twentieth century and sharing a view of old New York not often seen in history books. Fitzgerald begins his account as the dust is still settling from the Spanish–American War and Theodore Roosevelt has taken office as president of the United States. He concludes with the 1980 presidential election. His perspective allows readers to see what happened in everyday life while countries fought world wars and disasters struck, like the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and the Black Tom explosion. Along the way, he experiences technological advents like modern plumbing. Tag along for his first job as a plumber, back when many employers were unwilling to hire Irish Americans. Meet Fitzgerald’s interesting family and even see what a boy does for fun in early-twentieth-century Brooklyn, like swim in the East River. With stories that are sure to charm and entertain. I Saw a Century Blossom is a great choice for readers interested in New York City history and daily life during the early 1900s.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, ed. by W.D. Whitney
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
The Blossom Which We Are
Author: Nir Evron
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438480695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile and time-bound cultural frameworks that we inhabit—as it manifests in the realm of the novel. Nir Evron juxtaposes seminal works from diverse national literatures to demonstrate that the trope of cultural extinction offers key insights into the emotional and ideological work performed by the realist novel. With an analysis that ranges from the works of Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott, Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence and Joseph Roth's Radetzky March and Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous, and finally to the current state of the humanities, this book seeks to recover literary criticism's humanistic mission, bringing the best that has been thought and said to bear on urgent contemporary concerns.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438480695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile and time-bound cultural frameworks that we inhabit—as it manifests in the realm of the novel. Nir Evron juxtaposes seminal works from diverse national literatures to demonstrate that the trope of cultural extinction offers key insights into the emotional and ideological work performed by the realist novel. With an analysis that ranges from the works of Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott, Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence and Joseph Roth's Radetzky March and Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous, and finally to the current state of the humanities, this book seeks to recover literary criticism's humanistic mission, bringing the best that has been thought and said to bear on urgent contemporary concerns.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney
Author: William Dwight Whitney
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Author: William Dwight Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Publisher:
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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The Twentieth Century
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Twentieth Century
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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The Nineteenth century and after (London)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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The Nineteenth century and after (London)
Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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