Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea
Author: John JeaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522797067
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
NOTE TO THE READER: This book represents the large print edition of this title. I, JOHN JEA, the subject of this narrative, was born in the town of Old Callabar, in Africa, in the year 1773. My father's name was Hambleton Robert Jea, my mother's name Margaret Jea; they were of poor, but industrious parents. At two years and a half old, I and my father, mother, brothers, and sisters, were stolen, and conveyed to North America, and sold for slaves; we were then sent to New York, the man who purchased us was very cruel, and used us in a manner, almost too shocking to relate; my master and mistress's names were Oliver and Angelika Triebuen, they had seven children--three sons and four daughters; he gave us a very little food or raiment, scarcely enough to satisfy us in any measure whatever; our food was what is called Indian corn pounded or bruised and boiled with water, the same way burgo is made, and about a quart of sour butter-milk poured on it; for one person two quarts of this mixture, and about three ounces of dark bread, per day, the bread was darker than that usually allowed to convicts, and greased over with very indifferent hog's lard; at other times when he was better pleased, he would allow us about half-a-pound of beef for a week, and about half-a-gallon of potatoes; but that was very seldom the case, and yet we esteemed ourselves better used than many of our neighbours.
Writing Himself Into History
Author: Pearl BowserPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813528021
Category : African American motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bowser (specialist in African and African American film) and Louise Spence (media studies, Sacred Heart U.) define and describe the audiences for black films while examining African American film director Micheaux's unique vision and contribution as an artist and novelist and its relation to his work as a filmmaker. With a focus on the first decade of his career, they place his work firmly within his social and cultural milieu, and examine his family background and life experience. They also provide a close textual analysis of his surviving silent films and highlight the rivalry between production companies, dilemmas of assimilation versus a separate cultural identity, and gender and class issues. Contains several b&w photographs.Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
The History of England ... A New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections and Improvements. To which is Prefixed, a Short Account of His Life, Written by Himself
Author: David HumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine
Author: Publisher: CCEL
ISBN: 1610250621
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1605
Book Description
Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Author: Margaretta JollyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 3905
Book Description
First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
The Methods of Historical Study
Author: Edward Augustus FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley
Author: Cassell, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Little Life
Author: Hanya YanagiharaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
