Download or read book The Beleaguered City written by Shelby Foote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1995-08-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelby Foote has drawn from his epic account another of the Civil War's most dramatic episodes, the taking of the city of Vicksburg by the Union forces. Ulysses S. Grant fought a long campaign over tricky terrain to get to the heavily fortified city. All the while, he had to fend off his colleague and rival General John McClernand, who decided that his aspirations to Lincoln's White House could best be realized by his possession of Vicksburg. When the city fell on July 4, 1863, after a protracted siege, it was a personal triumph for Grant and contributed largely to his later promotion to command of all the Union armies. Lincoln said that his general's campaign to reach Vicksburg had been "one of the most brilliant in the world".
Download or read book A Beleaguered City written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Beleaguered City written by Margaret Oliphant and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Beleaguered City" from Margaret Oliphant. Scottish novelist and historical writer (1828-1897).
Download or read book A Beleaguered City written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Beleaguered City" (Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen) by Mrs. Oliphant. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book A Beleaguered City written by Margaret Oliphant Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EXCLUSIVE ILLUSTRATED Edition of Margaret Oliphant s A Beleaguered City written by Colour the Classics and published by Colour the Classics Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Intriguing World of A Beleaguered City by Margaret Oliphant 📚✨ Hey Bookworms, Looking for your next captivating read? Dive into the fascinating world of A Beleaguered City by Margaret Oliphant - a timeless tale of drama, mystery, and societal intrigue that will keep you turning pages late into the night! 🌙📖 Why You'll Love It: 🌙 Engrossing Plot: Follow the gripping story of a city in turmoil and the complex web of relationships that shape its destiny. 📖 Intriguing Characters: Meet a cast of characters so vivid and compelling, you'll feel like you're right there with them. 💫 Thought-Provoking Themes: Explore themes of power, politics, and morality that are as relevant today as they were in Oliphant's time. What Readers Are Saying: 🌟 "A hidden gem of Victorian literature!" 🌟 "A must-read for fans of classic literature and historical fiction." 🌟 "Oliphant's storytelling is simply mesmerizing." Ready to embark on a literary journey like no other? Don't miss out on A Beleaguered City by Margaret Oliphant - your next favorite read awaits! 📚💫 Get Your Copy Now and Immerse Yourself in this Literary Masterpiece! Happy Reading, Your Bookish Friends
Download or read book A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne A Story of the Seen and the Unseen written by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne A Story of the Seen and the Unseen written by Margaret Oliphant and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Margaret Oliphant was originally published in 1900 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Beleaguered City' has a luminous intensity, a psychological realism and a gripping evocation of place. The story tells us about the citizens of a town who are driven outside their walls when their dead invade their city and push them out. The citizens are terrified by nothing but a deep sense of thousands of dead people who they once knew inhabiting their houses, streets, intimate spaces. Margaret Oliphant was born in Wallyford, Scotland in 1828. In 1849 she had her first novel published: Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. By the late 1850's, Oliphant's husband passed away, leaving her almost entirely without resources, and therefore left to support her three remaining children by her own literary activity. Her fictional works encompass domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural.
Download or read book A Beleaguered City written by Oliphant and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, Martin Dupin (de la Clairière), had the honour of holding the office of Maire in the town of Semur, in the Haute Bourgogne, at the time when the following events occurred. It will be perceived, therefore, that no one could have more complete knowledge of the facts—at once from my official position, and from the place of eminence in the affairs of the district generally which my family has held for many generations—by what citizen-like virtues and unblemished integrity I will not be vain enough to specify. Nor is it necessary; for no one who knows Semur can be ignorant of the position held by the Dupins, from father to son. The estate La Clairière has been so long in the family that we might very well, were we disposed, add its name to our own, as so many families in France do; and, indeed, I do not prevent my wife (whose prejudices I respect) from making this use of it upon her cards. But, for myself, bourgeois I was born and bourgeois I mean to die. My residence, like that of my father and grandfather, is at No. 29 in the Grande Rue, opposite the Cathedral, and not far from the Hospital of St. Jean. We inhabit the first floor, along with the rez-de-chaussée, which has been turned into domestic offices suitable for the needs of the family. My mother, holding a respected place in my household, lives with us in the most perfect family union. My wife (née de Champfleurie) is everything that is calculated to render a household happy; but, alas one only of our two children survives to bless us. I have thought these details of my private circumstances necessary, to explain the following narrative; to which I will also add, by way of introduction, a simple sketch of the town itself and its general conditions before these remarkable events occurred.
Download or read book A Beleaguered City written by Margaret Oliphant and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Scottish-born author Margaret Oliphant dabbled in a remarkable number of literary genres over the course of her career, critics and fans alike agree that some of her most abiding contributions were her tales of fantasy, science fiction, and the supernatural, many of which broke new ground in their time. A Beleaguered City blends elements of fantasy and science fiction, and the end result is an astonishingly compelling read.
Download or read book Stars in Their Courses written by Shelby Foote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote’s landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote’s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as “an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.” Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a single volume. Complete with detailed maps, Stars in Their Courses brilliantly recreates the three-day conflict: It is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the events that preceded it—not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.
Download or read book Symphony for the City of the Dead written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.
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Download or read book Why Dogs Chase Cars written by George Singleton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack), all Mendal Dawes wants is out. It's not just his hometown that's hopeless. Mendal's father is just as bad. Embarrassing his son to death nearly every day, Mr. Dawes is a parenting guide's bad example. He buries stuff in the backyard—fake toxic barrels, imitation Burma Shave signs (BIRD ON A WIRE, BIRD ON A PERCH, FLY TOWARD HEAVEN, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH), yardstick collections. He calls Mendal "Fuzznuts" and makes him recite Marx and Durkheim daily and befriend a classmate rumored to have head lice. Mendal Dawes is a boy itching to get out of town, to take the high road and leave the South and his dingbat dad far behind—just like those car-chasing dogs. But bottom line, this funky, sometimes outrageous, and always very human tale is really about how Mendal discovers that neither he nor the dogs actually want to catch a ride, that the hand that has fed them has a lot more to offer. On the way to watching that light dawn, we also get to watch the Dawes's precarious relationship with a place whose "gene pool [is] so shallow that it wouldn't take a Dr. Scholl's insert to keep one's soles dry." To be consistently funny is a great gift. To be funny and cynical and empathetic all at the same time is George Singleton's special gift, put brilliantly into play in this new collection.
Download or read book A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the written by Margaret Oliphant and published by Pinnacle Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Porpoise written by Mark Haddon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.
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