Download or read book The Warmth of Other Suns written by Isabel Wilkerson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

Download or read book Essential Novelists Henry James written by August Nemo and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Henry James which are The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. Novels selected for this book: - The Portrait of a Lady - The Turn of the Screw This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Download or read book The Portrait of a Lady II written by James H. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Portrait of a Lady» is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. This novel refl ects James’s continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former.

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Download or read book The Portrait of a Lady written by Henry James and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1991-11-26 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece.

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Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Henry James The portrait of a lady written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Portrait of a Lady written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Isabel Archer, a beautiful American, travels to Europe where her naivete - and recent inheritance - attracts many suitors. But despite her great promise, she falls victim to her own provincialism. Exposing the differences between the New and the Old Worlds, James's masterpiece examines the themes of freedom, sexuality, and betrayal.

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Download or read book The Essential Henry James Collection written by Henry James and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 2288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Henry James The Turn of the Screw Portrait of a Lady The Ambassadors Daisy Miller Washington Square What Maisie Knew

Download or read book Saints of the Americas written by Arturo J. Pérez-Rodríguez and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength and vigor of the Catholic Church are nowhere more visible than in North and South America, where hundreds of millions of people claim the Catholic faith. Saints of the Americas features thirty heroes of this New World faith, with representatives from fifteen countries in South America, Central America, North America, and the Caribbean. Through "conversations" between the authors and the saints, readers will be inspired by the stories of Catherine Drezel and Elizabeth Ann Seton, who built schools and hospitals in the United States; martyr Óscar Romero from El Salvador; Venezuelan physician and healer José Gregorio Hernández; Peruvian Rose of Lima, the first saint of the Americas; and others. The faith and perseverance of these martyrs and monks, laypeople and clergy, mystics and activists will encourage people today to make a lasting difference in the world.

Download or read book Ghost Of A Smile written by EJ Divitt and published by EJ Divitt. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny's gotten used to helping spirits but can she help the living? It's only been a few months since Jenny Chang took over her father's job as supernatural protector. Being the Ghost Protector has already cost Jenny more than she thought she had to lose but now the stakes are higher than ever. Something is killing teenagers on the Hopi Reservation. In an unfamiliar place and unsure whom to trust, Jenny will have to use all of her new found skills and abilities to face down her toughest foe yet.

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