Download or read book Pioneers of California written by Donovan Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way We Lived written by Malcolm Margolin and published by Heyday. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of reminiscences, stories, and songs that reflect the diversity of the people native to California.
Download or read book Love Stories of Old California written by Mrs. Fremont Older and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1971 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semi-fictionized stories of Spanish California.
Download or read book Stories of California written by Ella M. Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Through the Days written by Herbert W. Luthin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography.
Download or read book All s Fair and Other California Stories written by Linda Feyder and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In present-day Southern California, a diverse group of characters seeks the fulfillment and connection this sunny state has always promised. They come with hopes for a better lifestyle, for a change of perspective, or for the dry, mild West Coast weather. A couple moves to Palm Desert from New York for the arid, warm climate a doctor prescribes and they manage both illness and homesickness. The woman makes an unlikely friend in a young albino boy who teaches her a harsh lesson about the margin for cruelty that resides in us all. A young Mexican woman migrates to California and marries an American man—only to be deserted. A young man is disqualified from the Naval Aeronautical program and returns to his sister’s home, where he struggles with his identity and sexuality. After years of estrangement, a teenage girl travels to California from New York to spend the summer with her father. Between each of the thirteen stories in this collection are interspersed several “snapshot” stories—poetic pauses—that blend a set of images into an artistic visual unit, much like a brief cinematic experience. Every character in this collection is distinct from the next, but all of their stories unfold under the glare of the same Southern California sun—a western desert light so clear and unfiltered that it reveals everything.
Download or read book Stories of California written by Ella May Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of California written by M. Ella Sexton and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of California written by Ella M. Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That Constant Coyote written by Gerald W. Haslam and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 25 stories (19 previously published and 6 new) Haslam (English, Sonoma State U.) reveals a rural West with a startling variety of characters and dialects--the is the big city. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Ghost Stories of California written by Barbara Smith and published by Ghost Stories. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's rich and colorful history has produced a wealth of tales about the supernatural, from the decks of the Queen Mary at Long Beach to the malevolent phantoms that haunt Alcatraz.
Download or read book Visit Me in California written by Cooley Windsor and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this collection of short stories is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods. Windsor turns familiar stories from the Bible and from myth inside out, exploring the feelings of minor characters and looking at events from imaginative perspectives. His prose is rich with detail and emotion and he touches on themes of art and artifice, success and failure, family and its sacrifices, and expectations met or missed. In “The Last Israelite in the Red Sea,” a follower of Moses who dallies during their Exodus finds it more difficult to walk across the bottom of the temporarily displaced Red Sea without shoes. “Four of the Times My Sister Cried” follows a young narrator as his family rehearses for his mother’s death and then, as they must, lives without her. The wry “The Art of War” has characters from Homer to a courtesan talking shop about the battle of Troy from their perspectives. Set as a series of short pieces, “The Fleshly School of Poetry” tells of lessons learned and lessons taught. With its explorations of expectations, “Meet the Author” gives readers intimate portraits of various plans or coping mechanisms people put up when death draws close. “The End of the World” approaches the Rapture with a humorously practical spin: wouldn’t the angels need a plan to ensure that it goes smoothly? “In Parting” explores some of the troubles with family, especially when a sister’s child turns out to be a marionette. The geographically explicit “Three Mediums in San Francisco” touches on frustrated and imagined eroticism. The collection ends with “The Hilton Epiphany,” a fitting closer in which divinity comes to an unlikely person in an unlikely place.
Download or read book Traditional Stories of the California Nations written by Samantha Bell and published by Core Library. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California region covers the coastal and inland areas of what is now the state of California. This book features stories from several of the region's Native Nations, including the Maidu, Chumash, and Hupa.
Download or read book California Transit written by Diane Lefer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Carole Maso.
Download or read book Old Mission Stories of California written by Franklin Charles Carter and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories California Indians Told written by Anne Benson Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Mission Stories of California written by Charles Franklin Carter and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Franklin Carter is author of "The Missions of Nueva California" and "Some By-ways of California." Six of the stories in this collection have at least a small basis in historical fact. The story of Juana is wholly fictional, although if has an historical background. Carter gives his reader a picture of life among the Indians and Spaniards in Nueva California during the early days of the past century. Stories include The Indian Sibyl's Prophecy, The Flight of Padre Peyri, Father Zalvidea's Money, La Beata, Juana, Father Uria's Saints, and Pomponio.
