Edwards's Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis
Title | Edwards's Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Edwards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Mississippi River Valley |
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River Towns in the Great West
Title | River Towns in the Great West PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy R. Mahoney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003-02-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521530620 |
This book analyzes, with unprecedented breadth and coverage, the development, maturation, growth, and sudden decline of a distinctive, regional urban economic system that developed along the upper Mississippi River north of St. Louis during the middle third of the nineteenth century.
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
Title | Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520950607 |
o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902 o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.
Edwards' Illustrated Report of the Fourth Annual Fair of the St.Louis Agricultural & Mechanical Association
Title | Edwards' Illustrated Report of the Fourth Annual Fair of the St.Louis Agricultural & Mechanical Association PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Edwards (of St. Louis.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Agricultural exhibitions |
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Catalogue of the California State Library
Title | Catalogue of the California State Library PDF eBook |
Author | California State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1190 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Title | A Dictionary of Books Relating to America PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Sabin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | America |
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General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Title | General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Public Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1134 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Catalogs, Dictionary |
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