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Excerpt from A History of the United StatesThis volume aims to present the story of American history in a form which will engage the interest of pupils in the upper grades of the elementary schools. It will be found that a considerable amount of material of traditional interest, but of small intrinsic importance, has been omitted in order that a fuller emphasis might be placed on events and move ments of greater significance. Following the bes...

Excerpt from Odes and LyricsWith the exception of the Ode to the Commonwealth, which was first published in the Melbourne Daily Press, and afterwards appeared in a volume entitled, Patriotic Song, a book Of English Verse, edited by arthur stanley, and published by C. Arthur pearson, October, Igor, the Poems in this Volume have not previously appeared in book form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Excerpt from The Big Laugh: A NovelPeople know when you are trying to be something that you are not.This law 'protects some good people who are in dan ger of turning bad, it also makes it impossible for a lot of bad people to become good.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books use...

Excerpt from Songs of the SouthSweet songs of dead singers still scatheless of time, Our lips your wild honey Hath touched, lo! The musical murmur of rhyme The Southland makes sunny.Stray notes of strange echoes, that glide through weird change, From woodlands that cover The dingo afar on the wind-ringing range, On the lowlands the plover!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

Excerpt from Sonnets and RondelsThe light of one that lit his lustrous age With brief bright splendour sank ere yet the day Caught half the glow triumphal of its ray, Or gave to time song's perfect heritage, And hope fell stricken, hope that should assuage Grief when within the tragic arms of May Her golden melodist in silence lay, When Marlowe's light died from the English stage. But up the clouded darkness men saw climb The quivering splendo...

Excerpt from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition Into EnglishWho shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphora, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the aver age reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson.Then to me so lying awake a visionCame without sleep over the seas and touched me, Softly touched mine eyelids and lips, and I, too, F...

Excerpt from EmbersAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 ...

Excerpt from ThrenodiesLong the street of dreams, Deserted now and ever overcast, With no familiar gleams Of golden lamps that lit it in the past, I glance with tears and linger to the last.Along the street of dreams, I listen for a footstep in the night, Afar, at first, it seems, Elusive as an echo in its ¿ight, Then near, and nearer, at the threshold quite.Along the street of dreams, O sadness of the unreturning sound, When, from the heart's...

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About the Book Books about American Poetry present the poetry written by American poets, who first gained world prominence during the 19th century, and have presented a distinctly American world view. Titles include: An Ode to Harvard, and Other Poems, Canzoni of Ezra Pound, Edgar Allan Poe, Cape Cod, Edward MacDowell, a great American tone poet, his life and music, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Harlem Shadows, The Poems of Claude McKay, Pocah...

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Excerpt from The Big Laugh: A Novel People know when you are trying to be something that you are not. This law 'protects some good people who are in dan ger of turning bad, it also makes it impossible for a lot of bad people to become good. 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...

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The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment w...

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art b...

Mit einem Nachwort von Richard Ford Am 8. Juni 1931 wurde die Leiche einer jungen schönen Frau namens Starr Faithfull in Long Island an Land gespült, die offenbar einen sehr lockeren Lebenswandel gehabt hatte und als Kind mißbraucht worden war. Nie wurde der Fall aufgeklärt, nie jemand belangt, aber das Ereignis inspirierte John O'Hara zu seinem neben "Begegnung in Samarra" bedeutendsten Roman "BUtterfield 8". Hauptfiguren des 1935 erschien...

For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical's libretto and lyrics On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby-a big-talking, small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed "Pal Joey, " he recounts his ex...

The National Book Award-winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald"Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his childr...

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fi...

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