Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Great Stone Face
The Great Stone Face
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465553096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465553096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Great Stone Face
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Tales of the White Mountains
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Stone Face
Author: William Gardner Smith
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.
The Great Stone Face and Other Stories of the White Mountains
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781596880849
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Four tales set in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, told by America's first storyteller, who loved to hike there with his friend, President Franklin Pierce,
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781596880849
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Four tales set in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, told by America's first storyteller, who loved to hike there with his friend, President Franklin Pierce,
The White Mountains
Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148141478X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148141478X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
The Great Stone Face
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Selected Tales and Sketches
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101077808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101077808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains
Author: Натаниель Готорн
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041629773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041629773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description