John Williams Collected Novels Loa 349

Author : John Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1598537024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349) written by John Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Stoner. John Williams’s three major works have come to be recognized as modern American classics and are collected in this Library of America volume for the first time. In Butcher’s Crossing, he unsettles the conventions of the Western novel to tell the haunting story of a buffalo hunting expedition that exposes the savagery and greed behind the myth of the frontier. In Stoner, he portrays power politics in academe and the quiet heroism of a midwestern English professor dedicated to the honest and dogged pursuit of his craft. In Augustus, set in ancient Rome, Williams again takes on the subject of power—more particularly, in the author’s own words, “the ambivalence between the public necessity and the private want or need.” Rounding out the volume are three essays by Williams on writing fiction and his speech upon accepting the National Book Award for Augustus in 1973.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174240
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butcher's Crossing written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448180961
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus written by John Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power struggles, bloody wars and family strife, to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world had ever seen: Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor. Building on impeccable research, John Williams brings the legendary figure of Augustus vividly to life, and invests his characters with such profound humanity that we enter completely into the heat and danger of their lives and times.

Author : John Monteith
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780713129311
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Environmental Physics written by John Monteith and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1990-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and up-dated edition of a highly successful textbook.

Author : Various
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Sermons (LOA #108) written by Various and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 58 sermons displaying the eloquence, prophetic force, and spiritual fervor of American preaching, from the first New England settlements to modern evangelism and ecuemenism.

Author : Dan Lovett
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 145259418X
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anybody Seen Dan Lovett? written by Dan Lovett and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dan Lovett was an important part of Eyewitness News history." -Al Primo, founder of the original Eyewitness News at WABC-TV in 1968 in New York "Dan has always had a great passion for sports, and his knowledge comes crystal clear in this book. Plus, anybody with hair that good has to have something going just below it." -Ron Franklin, former lead college football broadcaster on ESPN "A man's man in the true sense of the word. He has the unmatched ability to put your mind into his story. A legendary storyteller; plus, he is a great friend and gentleman." -Dan Pastorini, former Houston Oilers quarterback "I tossed him out of my garage in gasoline alley at Indy, but felt bad about it because he was from my hometown. Dan came around and showed me he wanted to learn about racing. He is a great broadcaster and cares about my sport." -A. J. Foyt, first four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 "I knew when I first hired him he would be a great broadcaster on the radio. He could talk about the farm report and make it the most important story of the day." -Curt Brown, member of the Missouri Broadcasters Hall of Fame "Dan knows how to tell the story in this book. If you like sports, you'll Lovett." -Sam Huff, hall of fame linebacker of the Giants and Redskins

Author : Virgil Thomson
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534750
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Music written by Virgil Thomson and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The State of Music was not just “the most original book on music that America has produced,” but “the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written.”

Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320105
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel written by Charles J. Shields and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.

Author : Mark Waid
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302482955
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daredevil Vol. 4 written by Mark Waid and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Daredevil #15.1, 16-18. It all comes down to this. In order to preserve the new life that he's built, Daredevil is faced with a critical decision -- one that may mean the death of Matt Murdock! Daredevil must make a deal with his own personal devil -- and unless he can outsmart the strongest, toughest opponent he's ever known, no one walks out alive! Is DD's time in San Francisco coming to an end? Does the new rival in town spell doom for Murdock and his friends? One thing is for sure, not everyone survives this phase in Daredevil's life -- and the final chapter in the Autobiography of Matt Murdock is written by someone who may surprise you. Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's Daredevil opus comes to an end! Find out who lives, who dies -- and who is changed forever.

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535293
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275) written by Abigail Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.