These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish Americans and other Chicagoans from 1910 to 1940. Farrell's stories offer a wonderful diversity of characters and experiences.
These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish...
Offers an account of everyday life in early Illinois. This title presents a complex portrait of the midwestern wilderness during the 1830s. It includes descriptions of the author's encounters with early settlers and Native Americans, the flora and fauna that surrounded her, and the developing towns she passed through in her travels.
Offers an account of everyday life in early Illinois. This title presents a complex portrait of the midwestern wilderness during the 1830s. It include...
Traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running, abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War, and the postwar era.
Traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running, abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Doug...
A surefire guarantee for the headaches and stomach upsets of the late twentieth century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, bountiful summer picnics, and shady front porches, the tale is set when the day's toughest decision might have been what to serve for dinner or which suit or dress to wear.In this new Prairie State Books edition, an introduction by longtime Millikin University faculty member and Findlay resident Dan Guillory situates the book and its charming tale firmly...
A surefire guarantee for the headaches and stomach upsets of the late twentieth century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler ...
Summer On The Lakes, In 1843 is not simply Fuller's portfolio of sketches, poems, stories, anecdotes, dialogues, and reflections on her Great Lakes journey, but also a record of her internal journey of self-exploration. Specialists in women's studies will be drawn to her impressions of 'women of the west, ' which in some ways foreshadow her will-known feminist study Women in the Nineteenth Century.
Summer On The Lakes, In 1843 is not simply Fuller's portfolio of sketches, poems, stories, anecdotes, dialogues, and reflections on her Great Lakes jo...
"This biography of poet Vachel Lindsay is a lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves to be remembered . . . a book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and not soon forget". -- Library Journal New American Writing Award
"This biography of poet Vachel Lindsay is a lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves to be remembered . . . a book people will en...
