Download or read book Vardis Fisher written by Michael Austin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history. Engrossing and enlightening, Vardis Fisher illuminates the acclaimed author's impact on Mormon culture, American letters, and the literary tradition of the American West.
Download or read book Toilers of the Hills written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicle of a family on a dry farm in the Idaho hills.
Download or read book Mountain Man written by Vardis Fisher and published by Amereon Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored after the actual Crow Killer John Johnson, Sam Minard is a mountain man who seeks the freedom that the Rocky Mountains offers trappers. After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, a widow who faces madness. This remarkable frontier fiction captures that brief season when the romantic myth of the far West became a fact.
Download or read book Children of God written by Vardis Fisher and published by New York, Harper [c1939]. This book was released on 1939 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated lining-papers. "First edition."
Download or read book Mountain Man written by Vardis Fisher and published by Important Books. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored after the actual "Crow Killer" John Johnson, Sam Minard is a mountain man who seeks the freedom that the Rocky Mountains offers trappers. After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, a widow who faces madness. This remarkable frontier fiction captures that brief season when the romantic myth of the far West became a fact.
Download or read book City of Illusion written by Vardis Fisher and published by New York: Harper c1941.. This book was released on 1941 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859 and the resulting boom that created Virginia City.
Download or read book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.
Download or read book Darkness and the Deep written by Vardis Fisher and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KNOWING ONLY NAKED LUST AND FEAR, THEY LIVED BY THEIR DARK AND BRUTAL PASSIONS... This critically acclaimed novel, which was first published in 1943, forms part of author Vardis Fisher’s Testament of Man, the moving and unforgettable chronicle of mankind’s long journey from cave to civilization. WERE THEY MEN...OR ANIMALS? They lived in family groups, as men do. Yet the female was always taken by force, as animals do. They walked upright, as men do. Yet they fought with their teeth and nails, ripping at each other’s flesh, as animals do. These strange and violent people belong to the bloodstained and bestial past of every one of us. These are the first men and women—more of a jungle animal than a human being...and ancestors to all of us. ‘The most ambitious project of the imagination in present-day fiction’—The New York Herald Tribune ‘One of the most brutal and disturbing novels ever written’—The Chicago Daily News ‘It is moving art...worthy of a Dostoievsky.’—William K. Gregory, The New York Times ‘An absorbing narrative...It has style, compression, clarity and a beauty of language...’—Thomas Sugrue, Saturday Review ‘A rare find...you’ll treasure it as a vision of pure delight.’—Arnold Gingrich, The Chicago Sun
Download or read book Tiger on the Road written by Tim Woodward and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete biography of one of the great pioneers of Western literature. Fisher was an author whose lifestyle was as colorful and unpredictable as his writing. He was often controversial, frequently infuriating, and never boring. In a career spanning four decades and thirty-six books, Fisher was a relentless prober of human evasions.
Download or read book Dark Bridwell written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as one of the ten most important novels in all of The New York Times, DARK BRIDWELL describes the brutal life of a pioneer family in the early days of settling the Idaho wilderness.
Download or read book Vardis Fisher s Boise written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains "The Boise Guide" by Vardis Fisher and the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, originally compiled in 1939 but never before published.
Download or read book A Goat for Azazel written by Vardis Fisher and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LUST AND REDEMPTION, SIN AND SALVATION—THE EPIC NOVEL OF A YOUNG ROMAN IN THE FLESHPOTS OF AN ANCIENT WORLD. HE SAW HIS MOTHER BURNED AT THE STAKE This soul-searching experience changed an innocent young Roman into a pleasure-seeking hedonist lusting for flesh. Yet, there was something about the new religion that obsessed him. What was it that made Christian martyrs go to their deaths with a smile on their lips?... Christ had preached love; only through love could man be re-born. So it was that Damon set out in search of the answers to puzzling riddles about love and lust, the spirit and the flesh, barbarian pantheism and gentle Christianity... The latest in Vardis Fisher’s TESTAMENT OF MAN series. ‘The most ambitious project in present-day fiction!’—The New York Herald Tribune DAMON SOUGHT LOVE —from Levilla, the beautiful young Christian, who withheld her ripe body from him; —from Murdia, the sensualist, who knew how to arouse men with passionate abandon; —from Ayla, the voluptuous dancing girl, whose cloying movements invited a strange relationship; —from the father he never knew; from the religion he yearned to believe in... Here is the fascinating odyssey of a young Roman who sated himself in the dissolute world of the First Century...until he finally found the goal of his quest for love in a new and sublime experience.
Download or read book Republic of Detours written by Scott Borchert and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | Winner of the New Deal Book Award An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression—and employed some of the biggest names in American letters The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious—and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a series of guidebooks to the then forty-eight states—along with hundreds of other publications dedicated to cities, regions, and towns—while also gathering reams of folklore, narratives of formerly enslaved people, and even recipes, all of varying quality, each revealing distinct sensibilities. All this was the singular purview of the Federal Writers’ Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration founded in 1935 to employ jobless writers, from once-bestselling novelists and acclaimed poets to the more dubiously qualified. The FWP took up the lofty goal of rediscovering America in words and soon found itself embroiled in the day’s most heated arguments regarding radical politics, racial inclusion, and the purpose of writing—forcing it to reckon with the promises and failures of both the New Deal and the American experiment itself. Scott Borchert’s Republic of Detours tells the story of this raucous and remarkable undertaking by delving into the experiences of key figures and tracing the FWP from its optimistic early days to its dismemberment by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. We observe notable writers at their day jobs, including Nelson Algren, broke and smarting from the failure of his first novel; Zora Neale Hurston, the most widely published Black woman in the country; and Richard Wright, who arrived in the FWP’s chaotic New York City office on an upward career trajectory courtesy of the WPA. Meanwhile, Ralph Ellison, Studs Terkel, John Cheever, and other future literary stars found encouragement and security on the FWP payroll. By way of these and other stories, Borchert illuminates an essentially noble enterprise that sought to create a broad and inclusive self-portrait of America at a time when the nation’s very identity and future were thrown into question. As the United States enters a new era of economic distress, political strife, and culture-industry turmoil, this book’s lessons are urgent and strong.
Download or read book Vardis Fisher written by Joseph M. Flora and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Passion written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the provocative and deeply moving story of the divine passion, the love passion, and of pagan men and women whose primitive, uninhibited rites allowed them to workship their bodies and express their yearnings and passions according to the urging of desire."--Back cover.
Download or read book God Or Caesar written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Holy Satan written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
