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Chicago Stories
Häftad, 1998
376 kr
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A Prairie State BookThese stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives ofIrish Americans and other Chicagoans from 1910 to 1940. They are gems of the short fiction genre, unique, pioneering, and accomplished. …
Life in Prairie Land
Häftad, 1988
407 kr
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Combining descriptive travel writing, autobiography, and the depth of the extended essay, Life in Prairie Land--back in print in this new edition--is a classic account of everyday life in early Illinois. Eliza Farnham, a New Yorker who would become one of the leading feminists of her time, …
THEY BROKE the PRAIRIE
Häftad, 1989
337 kr
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First published in 1937 in honor ofthe Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth oflively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of thecommunity and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running,abolitionist confrontations, the …
Valley of Shadows
SANGAMON SKETCHES
Häftad, 1989
280 kr
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Debora Greger is a stoic comedian in an age when even wit has its darkundertones. In this her fourth collection she finds Ovid in Provincetown,a right whale in Iowa, and Cleopatra in the afterworld. Nothing residesin its proper place, except the place of exile. "Characteristic wit,irony, and …
Twenty Years at Hull-House
Av Jane Addams
Häftad, 1989
327 kr
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A bedrock text of American progressivism, Twenty Years at Hull-House tells the dramatic story of how social reformer Jane Addams cofounded and developed the Chicago settlement house into a community center dedicated to serving the city's immigrants and poor. Addams provides an eyewitness account of …
Lemon Jelly Cake
Häftad, 1997
239 kr
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A Prairie State BookSupported by Nettie Lou SamuelsA surefire cure for the headaches and stomach upsets of the twenty-first century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the last century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, …
City of Discontent
Av Mark Harris
Häftad, 1993
302 kr
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When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle "An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation." But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln, not so much a …
You Know Me Al
Av Ring Lardner
Häftad, 1992
321 kr
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The publication of You Know Me Al brought instant fame to RingLardner (1885-1933), one of the great American humorists of this century.Considered the satirist's greatest work, the book is a collection of lettersfrom one Jack Keefe, a baseball "busher," to his longtime friend,Al Blanchard, in their …
Chicago Poems
Häftad, 1992
312 kr
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Now considered possibly Illinois' greatest poet, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) saw himself as a bard of the working class. Chicago Poems brought him to national attention and is one of the few Chicago classics that can also be termed an American classic. It includes such famous poems as "Chicago" and …
Windy McPherson's Son
Häftad, 1994
441 kr
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Sherwood Anderson's first and most autobiographical novel and the only one set in Illinois, Windy McPherson's Son received uniformly high praise from literary critics when it was first published. It tells the story of an Iowa newsboy who fights his way to fortune in Chicago, then questions the …
Drums of the 47th
Häftad, 1999
377 kr
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This eloquent memoir records the Civil War experiences of Robert J. Burdette, private in the 47th Illinois Infantry Regiment. From Peoria to Corinth, from Corinth to Vicksburg, up the Red River country, down to Mobile and Fort Blakely, and back to Tupelo and Selma, the 47th marched three thousand …
Black Hawk
An Autobiography
Häftad, 1975
260 kr
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A classic of Native American literature and US history, the autobiography of the Sauk warrior Black Hawk (Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak in the Sauk language) offers an eyewitness account of the conflict between Indigenous peoples and white colonists on the Illinois frontier. But it also provides one of …
