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Book Danny Farrell s Tale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irwin Guzov
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-12
  • ISBN : 0595161405
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Danny Farrell s Tale written by Irwin Guzov and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Danny Farrell, the son of impoverished Irish immigrants, from the slums of the late 19th Century New York City to the heights of political power in Tammany Hall. To escape the slums and his brutal father, he joins a street gang. Danny's physical strength and street smarts, as well as his sixth grade education, enable him to move from the life of a career criminal to that of a reporter for the "World," New York's best newspaper. He changes careers at the urging of Amy Hawkins, an evangelist and the daughter of upper class parents. Danny falls in love with Amy and struggles to her hand in marriage. As a reporter, he helps Dr. Parkhurst, a clergyman, to expose the corruption in Tammany Hall and the New York City Police Department. Their crusade puts the lives of Danny, his family and friends in great danger. Will Danny bring about end of the corruption or fall victim to the immense power of the political machine?

Book My Days of Anger

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Thomas Farrell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0252074874
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book My Days of Anger written by James Thomas Farrell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

Book The Face of Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Thomas Farrell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0252075129
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Face of Time written by James Thomas Farrell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprawling tale of immigrant families' struggles with harsh urban realities

Book Father and Son

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Thomas Farrell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0252074955
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Father and Son written by James Thomas Farrell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

Book Marine Corps Tanks and Ontos in Vietnam

Download or read book Marine Corps Tanks and Ontos in Vietnam written by LtCol Ray Stewart USMC and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two, the second of a three-book series, continues from 1966 in Book One, to cover the action of Marine Corps Tankers and Ontos crewmen fighting the locally-grown Viet Cong, the better armed, trained, organized, and equipped Viet Cong Main Forces, and the North Vietnamese Army Regulars from 1967 thru 1968 in I Corps, South Vietnam. As in Book One, and to continue in Book Three, it features hundreds of personal stories, on-the-spot in real time, interviews of Marines just returning from their fight – all which is framed within the official unit command chronologies and after action reports, including documented “lessons learned”. The maps, personal pictures, organizational charts, and the citing of each Marine who gave his life are, also linked to the Vietnam Wall and to the Foundation’s web site, with volumes of additional information about the Marines who left their sweat and blood in Vietnam battling their communist enemy.

Book Eudora Welty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pearl Amelia McHaney
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-03-31
  • ISBN : 1139443267
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Eudora Welty written by Pearl Amelia McHaney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. From the first, reviewers loved Welty's language and disparaged her lack of plot. Their eager anticipation for the next book is rarely diminished by the shock of reading entirely different styles of writing. Her work was admired even as it challenged its readers. The reviews selected for reprinting here represent the diversity of Welty's reception and assessment. Reviews from small towns, urban centers, noted fiction writers, professional reviewers, academics, and everyday readers are included. The comments of reviewing rivals such as the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, Nation and New Yorker, when read side by side, reveal the nuances both of the reviewers and of the work of this important Southern writer.

Book No Star is Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Thomas Farrell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book No Star is Lost written by James Thomas Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprawling tale of two families' struggles with harsh urban realities

Book The Little Friend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donna Tartt
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-10-19
  • ISBN : 030787348X
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book The Little Friend written by Donna Tartt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.

Book A World I Never Made

Download or read book A World I Never Made written by James Thomas Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Farrell's five-volume series, A World I Never Made introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain their large family--send him to live with his grandmother. Seen here at the age of seven, Danny is fraught with feelings of anxiety and dislocation as he learns the ins and outs of life on the street.

Book The Whole Story

Download or read book The Whole Story written by John E. Simkin and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

Book The Mixer and Server

Download or read book The Mixer and Server written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Voice in America

Download or read book The Irish Voice in America written by Charles Fanning and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.

Book Death of a Diva

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Farrell
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-13
  • ISBN : 9781533606389
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Death of a Diva written by Derek Farrell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Bird is having a very bad day. In the space of just a few hours he lost his job, his partner and his home. Ever the optimist, Danny throws himself headlong into his dream to turn the grimmest pub in London into the coolest nightspot south of the river. Sadly, everything doesn't go quite as planned when his star turn is found strangled hours before opening night. Danny becomes the prime suspect in the crime, and then the gangster who really owns the pub starts asking where his share of the takings has gone... it seems things are going to get worse for Danny before they get better. "A classic whodunit brought bang up to date" "A modern day Cluedo" "Impossible to compartmentalise into one genre, the plot twists and turns through a thoroughly modern tale that will have you totally hooked." "A book full of clever plotting." "Excellent pacy story, great characters and laugh out loud jokes in places"

Book The Hawkesbury River

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Boon
  • Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
  • Release : 2017-07-01
  • ISBN : 0643107614
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book The Hawkesbury River written by Paul Boon and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the survival of the early British colony at Sydney. The Hawkesbury’s weathered shores, cliffs and fertile plains have inspired generations of artists. It is surrounded by an unparalleled mosaic of national parks, including the second-oldest national park in Australia, Ku-ring-gai National Park. Although it lies only 35 km north of Sydney, to many today the Hawkesbury is a ‘hidden river’ – its historical and natural significance not understood or appreciated. Until now, the Hawkesbury has lacked an up-to-date and comprehensive book describing how and when the river formed, how it functions ecologically, how it has influenced humans and their patterns of settlement and, in turn, how it has been affected by those settlements and their people. The Hawkesbury River: A Social and Natural History fills this gap. With chapters on the geography, geology, hydrology and ecology of the river through to discussion of its use by Aboriginal and European people and its role in transport, defence and culture, this highly readable and richly illustrated book paints a picture of a landscape worthy of protection and conservation. It will be of value to those who live, visit or work in the region, those interested in Australian environmental history, and professionals in biology, natural resource management and education.

Book Beyond the Sea of Dreams

Download or read book Beyond the Sea of Dreams written by Mary Ann Short and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dierdre Farrell’s childhood is filled with fear and insecurity. A heartless and insensitive family has her feeling traumatized and alone. Finding the courage to leave the callous and abusive environment in which she was raised, her life begins to slowly transform. Nevertheless, she cannot completely run from her past, and is ultimately compelled to face its grim realities. Determined to find hope and deliverance in a new town, loyal friends, and the love of a kind, yet troubled man, she learns the meaning of trust and forgiveness.

Book Scott Farrell s Biography  or  Triumph  Tears  and Tales of the Stage

Download or read book Scott Farrell s Biography or Triumph Tears and Tales of the Stage written by Scott Farrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chicago Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Thomas Farrell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780252019814
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Chicago Stories written by James Thomas Farrell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-five short fiction stories by American author James Farrell, drawn from his first ten collection, all set in Chicago.