Carl Van Doren
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Language
English
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Description
From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin's activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them.
In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Carl Van Doren incorporates materials from Franklin's letters, manuscripts, journals,
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English
Description
In this classic satiric novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, falls unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he finds himself in Britain in 528-- where he is immediately captured, hauled back to Camelot to be exhibited before the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, and sentenced to death. Things are not looking good. But Hank is a quick-witted and enterprising fellow, and in the process...
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan company
Pub. Date
1921.
Language
English
Description
In this 1921 critical study, Van Doren examines the historical evolution of the American novel and the idea of the "Great American Novel." His essay on Melville argued forcefully and successfully for that then-neglected author's literary rehabilitation. Also studied here are Mark Twain, Henry James, James Fenimore Cooper, and others.
6) The great rehearsal: the story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
16) Capricornia
Author
Publisher
D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal"--HarperCollinsPublishers Australia
