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Author : Mary MacLane
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1903
ISBN 10 : 9781465583727
Pages : 262 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (465 users)
Download or read book My Friend Annabel Lee PDF or another Format written by Mary MacLane and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1903 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary MacLane
Publisher : Petrarca Press
Release Date : 2014-11-13
ISBN 10 : 9781883304058
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (883 users)
Download or read book I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated PDF or another Format written by Mary MacLane and published by Petrarca Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. She is before her time ... Moving.” - London Times With her first book - written in 1901 in Butte, Montana at age nineteen - she was hailed as a marvel by the likes of H.L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and Harriet Monroe. She went on to become a pioneering newswoman, gambler extraordinaire, bon vivant, and a star of the silent screen. She influenced Gertrude Stein, inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, and upon her death in 1929 was eulogized as “an errant daughter of literature ... the first of the self-expressionists, and also the first of the Flappers,” as the creator of “that revolution in manners, that transvaluation of values in the female code of behavior known as the Roaring Twenties.” Too radical in style for 1902, its original publisher made countless changes to the author’s far-superior original - the same pacification reprinted by all other publishers. This annotated, unexpurgated affordable edition makes Mary Mac-Lane’s striking teenage debut - “the first of the blogs” - available in its unalterd, uncompromised form. “Mary MacLane’s first book was the first of the confessional diaries ever written in this nation, and it was a sensation.” - N.Y. Times editoral “Anyone who reads her will never forget her voice.” - Biographile “She reminds us of the power of personal narrative, honestly told.” - The Atlantic “In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence.” - The Awl “She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous.” - The New Yorker “One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.” - The Age “A girl wonder.” - Harper’s “Confessional journalists have people like Mary MacLane to thank.” - Flavorwire “Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women’s voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure opened a door to what was possible for women.” - The Atlantic “Fiery frankness made her a pioneer.” - Time Out Chicago “Her poetry is one of extremes: lust for happiness, despair for life.” - Hairy Dog Review “Riveting.” - N.H. Public Radio “I Await The Devil’s Coming is a small masterpiece, full of camp and swagger.” - Parul Sehgal, NPR “Pioneering newswoman, later silent-screen star, considered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties.” - Boston Globe “A pioneering feminist - a sensation.” - Feminist Bookstore News “First of the self-expressionists, and the first of the Flappers.” - Chicagoan Check www.marymaclane.com for exclusive content, news, and previews.
Author : Mary MacLane
Publisher : Petrarca Press
Release Date : 2014-10-21
ISBN 10 : 9781883304034
Pages : 600 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (883 users)
Download or read book Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader PDF or another Format written by Mary MacLane and published by Petrarca Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone who reads her will never forget her voice.” - Biographile Mary MacLane (1881-1929) was the first of the modern media personalities: a pioneer in self-revelation, in defiance of established rules, in living on her own terms - and writing it in brilliant style. At age 19 she burst upon the world out of Butte, Montana with a journal of private thoughts and longings that incited national then international attention. In the books and newspaper articles that followed she evolved a completely new, individual voice decades ahead of its time. She influenced Gertrude Stein, inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was hotly discussed by everyday people - and America’s biggest writers. Yet despite sparking film, stage, and music projects today - and being endlessly quoted on the Internet - the writer behind the writing has remained unknown until now. HUMAN DAYS: A MARY MACLANE READER features the complete texts of all her books (with expurgated passages restored), her colorful newspaper articles (much never before reprinted), an intriguing 1902 interview, the first viewing ever of her striking personal letters, illuminating introductions to each era in her life, and comprehensive notes that open the door to her influences and the age she came from and impacted so profoundly. A foreword from actress Bojana Novakovic provides a contemporary artist’s creative appreciation of the author’s still-powerful effect upon readers. “Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. Moving.” - London Times “She reminds us of the power of personal narrative, honestly told.” - The Atlantic “In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence.” - The Awl “She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous.” - The New Yorker “One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.” - The Age “A girl wonder.” - Harper’s “Confessional journalists have people like Mary MacLane to thank.” - Flavorwire “Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women’s voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure opened a door to what was possible for women.” - The Atlantic “Fiery frankness made her a pioneer.” - Time Out Chicago “Her poetry is one of extremes: lust for happiness, despair for life.” - Hairy Dog Review “Riveting.” - N.H. Public Radio “I Await The Devil’s Coming is a small masterpiece, full of camp and swagger.” - Parul Sehgal, NPR “Pioneering newswoman, later silent-screen star, considered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties.” - Boston Globe “A pioneering feminist - a sensation.” - Feminist Bookstore News “First of the self-expressionists, and the first of the Flappers.” - Chicagoan Check www.marymaclane.com for exclusive content, news, and previews.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 0252069218
Pages : 678 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (69 users)
Download or read book Complete Poems PDF or another Format written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. McKay's first poems were composed in rural Jamaican creole and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from the bottom up. Migrating to New York, he reinvigorated the English sonnet and helped spark the Harlem Renaissance with poems such as "If We Must Die." After coming under scrutiny for his communism, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa for twelve years and returned to Harlem in 1934, having denounced Stalin's Soviet Union. By then, McKay's pristine "violent sonnets" were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism. McKay's verse eludes easy definition, yet this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, acquaints readers with the full transnational evolution of a major voice in twentieth-century poetry.
Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 0521301084
Pages : 580 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (31 users)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910 PDF or another Format written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Shira Wolosky provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, as well as a close appreciation of African-American poets, including the collective folk authors of the Negro spirituals. She also illuminates the major works of the period, from Poe through Melville and Crane, to Whitman and Dickinson. The authors of this volume discuss this extraordinary literary achievement both in formal terms and in its sustained engagement with changing social and cultural conditions. In doing so they recover and elucidate American poetry of the nineteenth century for our twenty-first century pleasure, profit, and renewed study.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : 0806908203
Pages : 60 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (98 users)
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe PDF or another Format written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen poems and eight prose selections from larger works.
Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 039585086X
Pages : 212 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (85 users)
Download or read book Rules for the Dance PDF or another Format written by Mary Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "The dance, " in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work - and enables readers, as only she can, to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure."
Author : Julian Wiles
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : 0871296128
Pages : 98 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (296 users)
Download or read book Nevermore! PDF or another Format written by Julian Wiles and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On September 27, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe boarded a ship in Baltimore Harbor for an overnight voyage to New York City. He never arrived. Five days later, he was found delirious on a Baltimore street, and shortly thereafter, without regaining his senses, he died. What had transpired over those missing five days has remained forever a mystery...until now..."--Cover.
Author : Jack N. Lawson
Publisher : Author House
Release Date : 2010-08-19
ISBN 10 : 1452039550
Pages : 305 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Doing Time PDF or another Format written by Jack N. Lawson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Time is the compelling, true-to-life story of a young woman, Annabel Lee, who is wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime committed by her wayward husband. Beginning before her birth, the story opens in the rural American South of the1950s, and tracks the brutal relationship into which Annabel Lee is born. As she grows, Annabel Lee cannot escape the cycle of violence and abuse that surrounds her. Naively, she elopes with her teenaged lover in the vain hope for an escape from her cruel past, only to discover that she has entered upon an equally harrowing stint in a women's prison. In the unlikely fellowship behind bars, and through her relationships with inmates, staff and particularly the prison's chaplain, Annabel Lee courageously moves from the scarred existence as a victim to the life of a survivor. Filled with the local color of life in rural North Carolina between the 1950s and 1970s, Doing Time is a poignantan-and at times humorous-story of multi-generational trauma and abuse, and the journey of the human spirit to healing and redemption.
Author : Christian Moraru
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
ISBN 10 : 0791451070
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (451 users)
Download or read book Rewriting PDF or another Format written by Christian Moraru and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others.
Author : Robert McLean Cumnock
Publisher :
Release Date : 1893
ISBN 10 : OSU:32435080007818
Pages : 518 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (324 users)
Download or read book Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments PDF or another Format written by Robert McLean Cumnock and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
Release Date : 1892
ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433111596007
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (33 users)
Download or read book The Blue Poetry Book PDF or another Format written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the popular works of British poets Scott, Browning, Blake, Wordsworth and others. Includes a few Scottish and American poets.
Author : John Seely Hart
Publisher :
Release Date : 1850
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015011543793
Pages : 504 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art PDF or another Format written by John Seely Hart and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Anderson Dana
Publisher :
Release Date : 1869
ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433082129317
Pages : 856 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (33 users)
Download or read book The Household Book of Poetry PDF or another Format written by Charles Anderson Dana and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher :
Release Date : 1888
ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433076019607
Pages : 600 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (33 users)
Download or read book A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic, pt. 2. 1821-1834 PDF or another Format written by Edmund Clarence Stedman and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher :
Release Date : 1889
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105015583391
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)
Download or read book A Library of American Literature: Literature of the republic, pt. 3, 1835-1860 PDF or another Format written by Edmund Clarence Stedman and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby
Publisher :
Release Date : 1870
ISBN 10 : BL:A0022663899
Pages : 12 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (2 users)
Download or read book Madame Sainton Dolby's farewell Concert PDF or another Format written by Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
