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Saints And Strangers
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Author : George Willison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Saints And Strangers written by George Willison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
A great deal has been written about the Pilgrims, perhaps more than any other small group in American history. Yet they continue to be extravagantly praised for accomplishing what they never attempted or intended, and they are even more foolishly abused for possessing attitudes and attributes foreign to them. In the popular mind they are still generally confused, to their great disadvantage, with the Puritans who settled to the north of them around Boston Bay. The purpose of the Willison narrative is to allow the Pilgrims to tell their own story, insofar as possible, in their own words and deeds. Saints and Strangers brings back to life men and women who were among the most stalwart of American ancestors. George F. Willison destroys the myth that too long has been created in the American mind: that Pilgrims, while pious and much to be admired, were a drab, stern people dedicated to prudery. Nothing could be further from the facts. These were lusty English people who were well aware of good food, drink, and pleasurable living. They were also an adventurous, hardheaded community united in their campaign for freedom of worship. The book takes the reader from the Puritan exile in Holland, their long and troubled voyage from old Europe to new America, and the hazardous period of settling on a strange, bleak coast. The Puritans were comprised of weavers, smiths, carpenters, printers, tailors, and working people--with scarcely a blue blood among them. It was a long trek to Plymouth Rock from English village life. Willison has produced a realistic picture of these people who often have been inaccurately portrayed with little appreciation of their substantial place in the history of a New World.
Saints And Strangers
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Author : Angela Carter
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 1987-12
Saints And Strangers written by Angela Carter and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-12 with Fiction categories.
"An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories…A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction." -- The New York Times Book Review Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Carter transports us to that shadowy country between fact and myth in this book of short stories. Lizzy Borden, the spinster daughter of a glutton and a compulsive miser, ticks off the hours before a murder. An eighteenth-century whore and pickpocket who runs off to join the Indians tells her story in a voice of bawdy authenticity. Carter immerses us in the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, of khans, princesses, and kitchen boys, bringing them to life in prose of seductive richness and perverse wit. In The Bloody Chamber, said The New York Times Book Review, Carter rewrote classic fairy tales "with all her supple and intoxicating bravura." In Saints and Strangers, she is just as audacious, and the result is a book of thoroughly contemporary folk tales that belong utterly to Angela Carter.
Saints And Strangers
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Author : Andrew Hudgins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Saints And Strangers written by Andrew Hudgins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Poetry categories.
Poems deal with nature, death, responsibility, guilt, dreams, religion, childhood, memories, the past, premonitions, and violence.
Saints And Strangers
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Author : George F. Willison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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Saints And Strangers
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Author : Joseph A. Conforti
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-01-09
Saints And Strangers written by Joseph A. Conforti and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-09 with History categories.
A history of colonial New England, this work synthesizes the scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England. Aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, it shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply.
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Author : George F. Willison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
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Black Venus
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Author : Angela Carter
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-30
Black Venus written by Angela Carter and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast.' And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity. Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.
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Author : George Findlay Willison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Saints And Strangers written by George Findlay Willison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Massachusetts categories.
Saints And Strangers Being The Lives Of The Pilgrim Fathers Their Families
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Author : George Findlay Willison
language : en
Publisher: Parnassus Press (IL)
Release Date : 1983
Saints And Strangers Being The Lives Of The Pilgrim Fathers Their Families written by George Findlay Willison and has been published by Parnassus Press (IL) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Author : George Findlay Willison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Saints And Strangers written by George Findlay Willison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Massachusetts categories.