Download or read book ANCIENT LITERATURE OF AMER CL written by John Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ancient Literature of America The anthropologist or student of man, may investigate him as he would any other object of natural history, classifying him with tail-less apes and erect bears, noting the form of his skull, the angle of his face, the colour of his skin, and the texture of his hair. To such a biologist man is an animal and nothing more. Another enters the field of sociology, viewing the intelligent animal in his relations with his fellows and with nature at large. Here a thousand interesting features present themselves, in domestic and tribal organization, marriage and funeral ceremonies, rites and superstitions, manners and customs, house building, domestication of animals, the chase and war, husbandry, the manufacture of canoes, pottery, and implements of many kinds. A third, calling himself a phil ologist, discovers that the animal talks, although Mr. Garner. Who has been making special studies in Africa, in his recent book called The Speech of Monkeys, contends that language is not peculiar to human beings. There is one way of communicating thought which uncivilized man shares with the brute, and this has been very fully illustrated by the late Colonel Garrick Mallery in his treatise on Sign and Gesture Language. Mr. Garner has perhaps succeeded in detecting something approaching to articulation in the cries of apes, but, until he can formulate a monkey grammar, the soul of speech will be wanting in his system. Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme spoke prose without knowing it, and wild tribes of men are ignorantly guilty of grammar, and, what is more strange, of good grammar. An English child is reported as answering an intimation that her mother wanted her, with the words, Her aint callin' me us don't belong to she, in spite of the board schools. Such a thing would be next to impossible in the case of an American Indian child, who unconsciously uses most correct speech, and in narration employs a style elevated and ornate. The occurrence of ungrammatical sentences in the language of a native almost invariably marks him as a foreigner who has acquired it late in life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Early American Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early American Literature: A Study Outline The last of the Mohicans. In Burton. Literary leaders of America. P. 56-65 (extract Running the gauntlet). Carpenter. American prose selections. P. 153-61 (extract Hawkeye and his friends). The Leather Stocking tales are the prose Iliad and Odyssey of the eighteenth-century pioneer. - Reuben Post Halleck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of American Literature Classic Reprint written by Reuben Post Halleck and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of American Literature The wide use of the author's History of English Literature the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the author has followed his rule of making a careful first-hand study, not only of all the matter discussed, but also of a far greater amount, which, although it must be omitted from a condensed textbook, is, nevertheless, necessary as a background for judgment and selection. The following chapters describe the greatest achievements in American literature from the earliest times until the present. Many pupils fail to obtain a clear idea of great American authors and literary movements because textbook writers and teachers ignore the element of truth in the old adage, "The half is greater than the whole," and dwell too much on minor authors and details, which could reasonably be expected to interest only a specialist. In the following pages especial attention has been paid, not only to the individual work of great authors, but also to literary movements, ideals, and animating principles, and to the relation of all these to English literature. The author has further aimed to make this work both interesting and suggestive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ancient America in Notes on American Archeology Classic Reprint written by John D. Baldwin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archeology In the Appendix will be found several papers which have only an indirect connection with the main topic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Early American Novel Classic Reprint written by Lillie Deming Loshe and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early American Novel The original inspiration and the subsequent patient guidance of this study constitute only a small part of my debt of gratitude to Professor W. P. Trent of Columbia University. I take this opportunity to express my grateful thanks for many years of personal kindness and scholarly inspiration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Literature Papers Classic Reprint written by Elizabeth Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Literature Papers When shall we say, then, that the literature began to grow? We all know that the world first heard of America through Christopher Columbus, but when he landed here he found no public libraries or bookstores among the business places of San Salvador, nor were the Indians reading school books or story books as they sat under the palm-trees or on the beach. In the old days stories and history were handed down not by books, but by the memories of the old men and women of the tribes, except such few records as were made, often in picture form, on the woven work or wood work of the Indians. Some of the tribe histories were kept in this way, and are interesting to those who have learned to understand them. Different kinds of lines and marks showed when wars or deaths had occurred, and odd pictures described special events of importance. In the records of one old tribe there is a rough sketch of a man with explosive-looking lines coming from his mouth. This was the year when a great epidemic of whooping-cough occurred among the Indians, and was the best picture they could think of to represent the terrible cough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Early Influence of German Literature in America Classic Reprint written by Frederick H. Wilkens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Influence of German Literature in America It is in the nature of things impossible to draw a sharp boundary line between different phases of literary development. It has been deemed advisable, however, to confine these observa tions to a period including and antedating the first quarter of our century. This is a period upon which the historian looks with somewhat unj ustifiable soreness of heart it is the time of plentiful American reprints of the issues of the English press, with but few original contributions of any value. The mournful complaint of the American author of the time about want of encouragement dins in our ears on turning over the pages of long-forgotten American reviews. It was hard for him to realize, or, when realized, to acquiesce in the fact that it was impossible for him to compete with the accepted classics of English literature and the new developments of the end of the last and beginning of the new century. A literary movement, however, cannot be made to order, and we do well to derive some satisfaction from the fact that the American public, with much trash, read much that was valuable, even though not a native product. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book England and America written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from England and America: Founded on an Ancient Saga As man, according to the angels Peace and Charity, would lead an unholy li e, his creation would therefore mean a discord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Brief Survey of English and American Literature written by Frederick Monroe Tisdel and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romances of Early America Classic Reprint written by Edward Robins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Romances of Early America Position of the lad who, when twitted about his youth, answered that he would outgrow the fault, if given a little time. America is fast outgrowing this fault of extreme youth. The country already has a past of which it may be proud, and one that is full of pictur esqueness. The more it is written about the more inter esting it seems, and the greater is the wonder that the New World offers so much pleasant romance to the reader. The age in which we live may be prosaic, and marked by the worship of Mammon, yet the public never showed a livelier appreciation than it does now of the dead-and-gone heroes and heroines who lived and loved, lost or won, in the early days of our history. I trust, therefore, that a place in the bookcase may be found for these Romances of Early America. The characters of whom they treat faded into shadows many years ago, but the theme of the volume - the old, old story - is ever new, and worth the telling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Campbell written by C. Beaumont and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Campbell: An American Tale But the author has other motives in presenting this work to the American people. It is the first attempt within his knowledge to connect the occurrences of that proud portion of the history of his country which so emphatically and fully developed its national character with the charms of heroic verse. And if this attempt but succeed in exciting a desire to have that history studied with the pleasures of its romance, he feels as sured. That it will develop one strong and lasting tie of patriotism. To have the' early history of our country connected with our earliest impressions of pleasure and excitement of passion will do much in establishing a desire to continue unchanged those scenes, and uh altered those institutions, which have been so greatly the foundation of our keenest enjoyments. What among the ancient Greeks could have produced a stronger love of their institutions and country than the immor talizing these in the works of their best writers? And who, upon visiting the spot where any well-described event has had its scene, has not felt the whole past come over the soul, mingling and identifying itself in interest with the present. Men may have what opinions they please as to the moral good or evil of works of this kind; but love of country, as all other kinds of love, consists in the affection of the heart and the more that is brought into exercise by the excitement of its feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Indian in Early American Literature written by Ruth Arline Carney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Indian in Early American Literature: Thesis In making my study of the Indian in American litera ture my purpose has been to try to discover the manner in which the various writers have treated the Indian as a literary subject. From this treatment I have tried to pic ture the Indian as he has evolved from the state of a ruth less and daring savage, invested with cunning and vengeance, to that of a noble creature ruled by high ideals. I have limited my study to a definite scope beginning with the Indian's first appearance in American Literature in John Smith's account of Pocahontas, and ending with the works of James Fenimore Cooper. I was influenced to select such a s00pe by the fact that the Indian, having been a dominant figure in early American life, must of necessity, have been a dominant figure in early American Literature and it was here I could best study him. I selected cooper as the final step of my study for it is in his works that the Indian finally achieves the highest level of nobility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life Travels and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor Classic Reprint written by Russell H. Conwell and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor The author cannot do less than acknowledge, in this place, his great obligations to the father and mother of Mr. Taylor, to Mrs. Annie Carey, his sister, and to Dr. Franklin Taylor, his cousin, for their generous courtesy and most important assistance in gathering the facts for this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Early American History written by Henry Sabin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early American History: For Young Americans The other, his head filled with a jumbled mass of dates, names, and figures, at the end of his school days had closed his history with a sigh of relief, and had sought no farther, glad to think that no one thereafter could make him pursue so dry 9. Subject. This disgust, occasioned partly because he had been shown only the dry husk and not the kernel concealed within, had followed him for twenty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Romance of American History written by M. Schele De Vere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of American History: Early Annals The warm heart of brave Captain Smith, ever over flowing with kindly feeling for the poor salvages, and lead ing him, out Of his scanty means, to set aside £200 for their conversion, saw in them, not the children Of the Devil, not at least an accursed race. When in the month of April, 1614, with two ships from London he (i) chanced to arrive in New England, a part of Ameryca, he fell in with the Indians there, and whether they struck him as different from the Powhatans of his beloved Vir ginia, or merely recalled to him early impressions, he stated that some conceive the inhabitants of New England to be Ham's posterity, and consequently shut out from grace by Noah's curse till the conversion of the Jews be past at least. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America written by Elisha Scott Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Classic American Literature written by D. H Lawrence and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies In Classic American Literature Is Valuable Not Only For The Light It Sheds On Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century American Consciousness, Telling 'The Truth Of The Day', But Also As A Prime Example Of Lawrence'S Learning, Passion And Integrity Of Judgement.To Cite Herbert J. Seligmann, 'Studies In Classic American Literature Alone Is A Foundation For A New American Critical Literature. Lawrence Fertilizes With Fire. No Living American Writing In A Critical Sense From Now On Will Be Able To Ignore Him.'Lawrence Asserted That 'The Proper Function Of A Critic Is To Save The Tale From The Artist Who Created It' In These Highly Individual, Penetrating Essays He Has Exposed 'The American Whole Soul' Within Some Of That Continent'S Major Works Of Literature. In Seeking To Establish The Status Of Writings By Such Authors As Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper And Whitman, Lawrence Himself Has Created A Classic Work.
