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Book Mosby s Memoirs and Other Stories

Download or read book Mosby s Memoirs and Other Stories written by Saul Bellow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented, Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly, Bellow is one of God’s spies.” –Los Angeles Times A Penguin Classic In six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. In the title story, a professor well-known for his wit struggles to animate his memoirs as he teeters on the brink of despair; in “the old System,” a distinguished biochemist tries to find room in his life for love; and in “A Father to Be,” a man is startled to find himself seated next to his future adult son on a New York subway. The other stories, too, reflect Bellow’s special ability to depict men and women confronting, in highly idiosyncratic ways, the enigmas and oddities of existence. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book Mosby s Memoirs

    Book Details:
  • Author : John S. Mosby
  • Publisher : J.S. Sanders Books
  • Release : 1995-06-13
  • ISBN : 1461632730
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Mosby s Memoirs written by John S. Mosby and published by J.S. Sanders Books. This book was released on 1995-06-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. “No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby.”—Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.

Book The Memoirs of Colonel John S  Mosby

Download or read book The Memoirs of Colonel John S Mosby written by John Singleton Mosby and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colonel Mosby was a 'Virginian of the Virginians', educated at the State's University, and seemed destined to pass his life as an obscure Virginia attorney, when war brought him his opportunity for fame. The following pages contain the story of his life as private in the cavalry, as a scout, and as a leader as partisans"--Introduction.

Book Mosby s Memoirs

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Singleton Mosby
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 1879941279
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Mosby s Memoirs written by John Singleton Mosby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the activity of this flamboyant commander and his men from his own perspective.

Book Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby

Download or read book Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby written by Robert F. O’Neill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an operational and tactical study of cavalry operations in Northern Virginia from September 1862 to July 1863. It examines in detail John Mosby's first six months as a partisan, within the context of the larger threat to the Union capital posed by Jeb Stuart. Previous studies of Mosby's career are largely based on postwar memoirs. This narrative balances those accounts with previously unpublished official contemporary records left by the Union soldiers assigned to the defense of Washington, D.C. The formation of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade is fully documented, along with the exploits of the brigade in the months before George Custer took command. Largely forgotten events, such as Jeb Stuart's Christmas Raid, the fight at Fairfax Station during Stuart's ride to Gettysburg, as well as the vital role played by Union general Julius Stahel's cavalry division in the critical month of June 1863, are examined at length.

Book Take Sides with the Truth

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Mosby
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2010-09-12
  • ISBN : 0813127122
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Take Sides with the Truth written by John Mosby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby’s Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of Mosby’s command, some for only a short time. Mosby had few confidants (he was described by one acquaintance as “a disturbing companion”) but became close friends with one of his finest officers, Samuel Forrer Chapman. Chapman served with Mosby for more than two years, and their friendship continued in the decades after the war. Take Sides with the Truth is a collection of more than eighty letters, published for the first time in their entirety, written by Mosby to Chapman from 1880, when Mosby was made U.S. consul to Hong Kong, until his death in a Washington, D.C., hospital in 1916. These letters reveal much about Mosby’s character and present his innermost thoughts on many subjects. At times, Mosby’s letters show a man with a sensitive nature; however, he could also be sarcastic and freely derided individuals he did not like. His letters are critical of General Robert E. Lee’s staff officers (“there was a lying concert between them”) and trace his decades-long crusade to clear the name of his friend and mentor J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. Mosby also continuously asserts his belief that slavery was the cause of the Civil War—a view completely contrary to a major portion of the Lost Cause ideology. For him, it was more important to “take sides with the Truth” than to hold popular opinions. Peter A. Brown has brought together a valuable collection of correspondence that adds a new dimension to our understanding of a significant Civil War figure.

Book Mosby s War Reminiscences  and Stuart s Cavalry Campaigns

Download or read book Mosby s War Reminiscences and Stuart s Cavalry Campaigns written by John Singleton Mosby and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mosby s Confederacy

Download or read book Mosby s Confederacy written by Thomas J. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides the reader through Mosby's battles and his early years. As some of Mosby's trails erode and buildings he used come down, many of the photographs can never be retaken. Includes both long and short tours the reader can take.

Book Gather Your Tribe

Download or read book Gather Your Tribe written by Kathy Mosby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Mosbys life was fairly routine until 2014. In the beginning of that year, it was as though three bombs dropped in the middle of her life. In January, her mom passed away suddenly from a brain aneurysm. In February, her neighbors dead tree fell on her house during a storm. Then in March, she was diagnosed with lymphoma. The journey that followed is Gather Your Tribe. When Kathy was first diagnosed, one of her doctors said, I know youre used to being the mom and taking care of everything, but now its time to gather your tribe and accept the help. So Kathy did indeed gather her tribe through deeply candid emails to her friends and family, which she wrote throughout her journey. Gather Your Tribe is both painful and uplifting. Kathy hopes that by sharing her story, which includes the emails to her tribe, she will inspire others to face their biggest fears and challenges head-on. Amazing things can happen when you do, like receiving a call from the White House!

Book Memoirs of a Broken Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kazyona Mosby
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-06-13
  • ISBN : 9781514344514
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Memoirs of a Broken Heart written by Kazyona Mosby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in current day Tennessee, Memoirs of a Broken Heart is the story of a depressed, twenty-four-year-old Vanessa Moore, who is struggling to find happiness in a man due to unresolved feelings from her father's death. To her dismay, she finds herself in a love triangle with Harper Thorne that she wants out of. But when she's given the opportunity to get out and to be loved wholly by Quentin Knight, Vanessa finds herself torn between the two men. Memoirs of a Broken Heart is the story of a young woman trying to find love through trial and error. At the end, Vanessa has to choose which man she wants to be with, but also the man she chooses has to choose her also in return.

Book Rebel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin H. Siepel
  • Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780312015077
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Rebel written by Kevin H. Siepel and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosby was only 31 when the war ended. Rebel fully explores his long and eventful career: his political battles; his close friendships with former enemies; his association with presidents from Ulysses S. Grant to Theodore Rooseve

Book Mosby s Rangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffry D. Wert
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-05-26
  • ISBN : 1439128847
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Mosby s Rangers written by Jeffry D. Wert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. As one contemporary said, “They had…all the glamour of Robin Hood…all the courage and bravery of the ancient crusaders.” Better known as Mosby’s Rangers, they were an elite guerrilla unit that operated with stunning success in northern Virginia and Maryland from 1863 to the last days of the war. In this vivid account of the famous command of John Singleton Mosby, Jeffry D. Wert explores the personality of this iron-willed commander and brilliant tactician and gives us colorful profiles of the officers who served under him. Drawing on contemporary documents, including letters and diaries, this is the most complete and vivid account to date of the fighting unit that was so hated by General Ulysses S. Grant that he ordered any captured Ranger to be summarily executed without trial.

Book Dangling Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saul Bellow
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2013-04-04
  • ISBN : 0141389303
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Dangling Man written by Saul Bellow and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.

Book Mosby s Memoirs and Other Stories

Download or read book Mosby s Memoirs and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Memoirs of Colonel John S  Mosby

Download or read book The Memoirs of Colonel John S Mosby written by John Singleton Mosby and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1917 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colonel Mosby was a 'Virginian of the Virginians', educated at the State's University, and seemed destined to pass his life as an obscure Virginia attorney, when war brought him his opportunity for fame. The following pages contain the story of his life as private in the cavalry, as a scout, and as a leader as partisans"--Introduction.

Book The Actual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saul Bellow
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-10-21
  • ISBN : 1101665467
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book The Actual written by Saul Bellow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time.” –The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic In this dazzling work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of first love. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has never belonged anywhere and is as awkward in his human attachments as he is gifted in observing the people around him. But Harry's observational talents have not gone unnoticed by "trillionaire" Sigmund Adletsky, who retains Harry as his advisor. Soon the old man discovers Harry's intense forty-year passion for a twice-divorced interior designer, Amy Wustrin. At the exhumation and reburial of her husband, Harry is provided, thanks to Sigmund, perhaps the final means for disclosing feelings amassed over a lifetime. Written late in Bellow's career, The Actual is a maestro's dissection of the affairs of the heart. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Joseph O'Neill. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book Mosby s War Reminiscences

Download or read book Mosby s War Reminiscences written by John Singleton Mosby and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mosby's War Reminiscences" is an account of wartime exploits, written by a Confederate army cavalry commander, John S. Mosby. While describing his war experiences, Mosby at the same time wanted to defend the reputation of his commander J.E.B. Stuart, who some partisans of the "Lost Cause" blamed for the Confederacy's defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.