The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
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W. H. DaviesЖанр:
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2026-09-22Язык книги:
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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, poet W. H. Davies’ autobiography, recalls spurning a youth of subsistence and squalor in England to pursue a life of travel abroad. With quiet and understated prose, Davies recounts a tramp’s life: riding railroad boxcars and evading fare collectors, cadging free meals, working as a migrant field hand, and dealing with corrupt law enforcement and judges. Each encounter gives Davies a chance to share his observations on the state of America and England at the turn of the 20th century.
Davies’ anti-authoritarianism inspired...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Автор:
James Weldon JohnsonЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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53
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The protagonist of this fictional autobiography wrestles with race in America from the perspective of someone who learns that he is considered black but also that he can pass as white if he wants to. His personal ambitiousness and racial ambivalence makes him a sort of American Hamlet: undone by indecision. Will he be “a credit to his race” by advancing an African-American heritage he loves and appreciates in the face of a hostile culture, or will he retreat into the mediocrity of a safe, white, middle-class family life?
Along the way, he shares his penetrating observations about race relations in the American north and south, about the “freemasonry” of subterranean black American culture, about the emerging bohemian jazz subculture...
The Autobiography of an Idea
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Louis H. SullivanЖанр:
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2025-06-03Язык книги:
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92
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Louis Sullivan was one of the most important architects working at the turn of the 20th century. His most well-known work was done in Chicago as part of the firm of Adler and Sullivan, but he also designed well-regarded buildings in cities like Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Buffalo. He has been called both the “father of the skyscraper” and the “father of modernism,” as well as being the progenitor of the famous maxim “form follows function.”
Building in the seething crucible of progress that was post-fire Chicago, Sullivan put that famous maxim—the “idea” of his autobiography—to use by creating forms and grammars for the new kinds of high-rise buildings made...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin FranklinДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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Benjamin Franklin is a man who needs little introduction. He wore many hats over the course of his fascinating life, from that of a printer, to an inventor, to a scientist, to a politician, a founding father and statesman, and even a postmaster-general. He was famous for all of these things in his day, but he was also famed for his keen insight into people and human nature, and his sparkling talent as a conversationalist.
Despite his accomplishments, Franklin seemed to keep a down-to-earth demeanor, favoring home-spun sayings and simple, direct, honest prose—the kind of prose that shines in this autobiography.
The autobiography itself has a long and complex...
The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart MillЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
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John Stuart Mill was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century. His more well-known works include On Liberty, a highly-influential treatise applying the Utilitarian philosophy to systems of government, and The Subjugation of Women, a treatise arguing for gender equality in an age where that was anything but the norm.
Besides these monumental works, he also produced A System of Logic, an important work on the philosophy of science, Principles of Political...
The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
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Black HawkЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Дата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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66
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Black Hawk, so named after the sacred medicine bag he carried with him, was a warrior and a leader of a tribe of Sauk Native Americans in the American Midwest circa 1800. He rose to leadership during a tumultuous time for his people, as they were pressed on all sides by the warlike British, the ruthlessly expansionist Americans, and the grudges and jealousies of neighboring tribes.
He lived as a warrior for much of his early life, when the War of 1812 between the British and the Americans forced the Sauk to take sides and enter the fray. Angered by the Americans’ demands they sign shaky treaties to cede their land, the tribe fought for the British until the toll of the war...
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford
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Mark RutherfordЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
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Born to a pious non-conformist home in the Midlands, Mark Rutherford trains for dissenting church ministry almost by default. Although outwardly not an especially devout young man, he nonetheless has depths to his spirit which lead him to seek meaning in his beliefs. As he settles into his first pastorate, Rutherford discovers that the substance of his creed is too faint to support his public ministry. As he reaches this crisis of faith, so too he reaches a point of crisis in personal relationships.
The Autobiography is the first novel by Mark Rutherford, the pen name of William Hale White. Beyond the pseudonym, the novel’s “editor,” Reuben Shapcott, who...
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Mark TwainДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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194
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a collection of reminiscences and reflections. Twain began dictating them in 1870, and in 1906 he published Chapters from My Autobiography in twenty-five installments in the North American Review. He continued to write stories for his autobiography, most of which weren’t published in his lifetime due to a lack of access to his papers, or their private subject matters. After Twain’s death, numerous editors have tried to organize this collection of published and unpublished autobiographical works, producing various differing editions. The most recent attempt is by the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, which...
The Autumn Land
Автор:
Simak CliffordЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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An engineer drifting through life finds himself trapped in a village where nothing ever...
The Autumn Leaf
Автор:
Brittany TarkingtonЖанр:
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2021-09-01Язык книги:
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The Autumn Tree (DI Bliss Book 8)
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Tony ForderЖанр:
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2022-04-20Язык книги:
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120
The Avenger
Автор:
Robertson JoЖанр:
Триллеры;Серия:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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A clandestine government organization called Invictus 'recruits' outstanding athletes for secret projects. But their top agent Jackson Holt has special, almost preternatural, qualities not even the Organization can explain. Olivia Gant, professor of Ancient Studies at a private college in California, was once Jack's childhood sweetheart. But when he deserted her, he left her alone to combat her stepfather's drunken attentions and her mother's careless neglect. Nearly twenty years later, their paths cross in a mission to fight a bizarre religious serial killer whose methods include crucifixion and burial alive. Olivia and Jack battle for happiness against years of secrecy and distance as they use Olivia's expertise in Latin and Jack's special gifts to track a brutal killer. Can Olivia...
The Avenger
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Edgar WallaceЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
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When a severed head is discovered, Mike Brixan of the Foreign Office is asked to return from Europe and assist in apprehending the murderer, known as “The Headhunter.” The trail leads to Chichester and the set of a motion picture crew located on an English manor.
Brixan discovers that the scriptwriter has a connection with both The Headhunter and an unscrupulous neighbor with a history of misadventure, a love of exotic pets, and an enthusiasm for young ladies.
Published in 1926, The Avenger was adapted for film in...
The Awakening
Автор:
Foster L.L.Жанр:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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Urban paranormal fantasy featuring Gabrielle Cody:Servant. Slayer. Seducer. Gabrielle Cody has the ability to see the demons among us as they really are-and the responsibility to destroy them. She can't allow anyone to get in her way, even the magnetic Detective Luther Cross. Sensing a malevolent presence watching and stalking her, Gaby is drawn again and again to an abandoned hospital surrounded by an aura of sickness and suffering-and unimaginable...
The Awakening
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Chopin KateЖанр:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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The Awakening
Автор:
Ahern JerryЖанр:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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No human being could possibly escape death when the earth's atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert would not be denied another chance at life. His family and friends are alive and about to enter a cruel, desolate new world. Thinking that The Retreat is the last refuge of life on earth until the Eden Project returns, Rourke is stunned to find that others have also survived the fiery holocaust. Yet these humans live to kill and kill to live, eating the flesh of their victims. Rourke and all he holds dear will soon be nothing but gnawed bones unless he once again makes the most of his skills as The...
The awakening
Автор:
Meczes StuartЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-11-25Язык книги:
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The Awakening
Автор:
Kate ChopinЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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50
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The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier’s journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can’t close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans, she starts to transition from unthinking housewife and mother into something freer and more confident, although this doesn’t meet with the full approval of the society she’s a part of.
Kate Chopin had written a novel previously, but she was mostly known as a writer of Louisiana-set short stories. The Awakening, while keeping the setting,...
The Awakening / The Resurrection
Автор:
Толстой ЛевЖанр:
Русская классика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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The Awakening of Dr. Brown
Автор:
Creighton KathleenЖанр:
Современные любовные романы;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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EMERGENCY!Well, not of the medical sort. But one look at young, idealistic Dr. Ethan Brown and Joanna Dunn realized she had it bad – and only the good doctor could cure her. And while she knew that dreams of white lace and wedding bells were not for her, was it so wrong to pretend, just for a little while, that she and Ethan belonged together?When it came to Joanna, Ethan, too, was stymied – for here was a woman whose stock-in-trade was in reinventing herself. Yet whatever form she was taking now, Ethan was finding her impossible to resist. Dare he indulge his dreams of a future together – even if she had a nightmare of a...
