Flappers and Philosophers (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Curnutt, Kirk

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

United States

Oxford University Press

In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the great small-town feats in Indiana basketball history. With no starters taller than 5’10", few wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town’s first and only sectional and regional titles. Relying on narrative strategies of creative nonfiction rather than strict historical rendering, Mike Roos brings to life a colorful and varied cast of characters and provides a compelling account of their struggles, wide-ranging emotions, and triumphs throughout the season.

One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season

History

Reynolds, Jerry

Roos, Mike

Blake, Mike

May, Chris

Lewis, Michael

Butcher, Jack

Buse, Don

Dean, Joe

Americas

Quarry Books

From her early classic Three Lives to her best-selling Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas to Brewsie and Willie, a loving tribute to the G.I.s who adored her, Gertrude Stein's work was among the most controversial of the modernist movement. Alternately praised and derided, emulated and ridiculed, Stein was as unique a celebrity as the mass media of the early 20th century ever produced. As her influence spread through the lost generation she nurtured, critics from Edmund Wilson to confidant Carl Van Vechten defended her experimentation against the slings and arrows of the literary establishment. At the same time, Stein found herself parodied and caricatured from the pages of the New York Sun to the New Yorker. Her reputation solidified only after her 1946 death from cancer prompted a series of reminiscences and reestimations from the Chicago Tribune to the Saturday Review.
While previous collections of Stein criticism typically reprint commentary by her most ardent supporters, this study reconstructs her precarious position in the eyes of American newspaper and magazine columnists and is thus a guide to her critical reception. While including quintessential pieces on Stein by Carl Van Vechten, William Carlos Williams, and Katherine Anne Porter, this collection also includes previously obscure estimations from contemporaries such as H. L. Mencken, Mina Loy, and Conrad Aiken. The book borrows from a range of sources―from leading literary outlets such as the New Yorker to a number of regional newspapers. Some 75% of the material in the volume has never before been reprinted.

The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein: (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)

History & Criticism

Greenwood

The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda - continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his image as the poet laureate of the 1920s, he was first and foremost a great writer with a gift for fluid, elegant prose. This introduction reminds readers why Fitzgerald deserves his preeminent place in literary history. It discusses not only his best-known works, The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), but the full scope of his output, including his other novels and his short stories. This book introduces new readers and students of Fitzgerald to his trademark themes, his memorable characters, his significant plots, the literary modes and genres from which he borrowed, and his inimitable style.

Cambridge University Press

Unrivaled diversity and ease of use have made THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME D: MODERN PERIOD (1910-1945), 6th Edition a best-selling text since 1989, when the first edition was published. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME D: MODERN PERIOD (1910-1945), 6th Edition continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. Available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the 6th Edition offers thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and showcase the treatment of important topics across the genres.

The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Modern Period (1910-1945), Volume D (Heath Anthologies)

Alberti, John

Lauter, Paul

Yarborough, Richard

Bryer, Jackson

Literary

Cengage Learning'

Paroled after ten years in prison, former football star Ennis Skinner reunites with his father, a hero of the civil rights movement, and investigates the disappearance of the daughter of a former girlfriend.

Dixie Noir

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Thorndike Press

Featuring poems, interviews and a short story.

MiPOesias

Koh, E. J.

Cavalieri, Grace

Hardy, Angela

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Strangers' lives intersect on an Easter-eve interstate . . . A reluctant sniper receives an unexpected education in music . . . A husband withers under the weight of his wife's infidelity . . . The paterfamilias of a rural Brazilian city is shocked by the lengths he's willing to go to fight a tuberculosis outbreak . . . A former teen-pop princes watches in dismay as a documentary is culled from her life . . . . Baby, Let's Make a Baby is a collection of eleven stories that mine a range of mood and emotion, from comic absurdity to somber reflection. Whether set in the American South or in South America, in the war-ravaged cityscapes of Eastern Europe or along the eroding shores of the Great Lakes, these short fictions explore the dilemmas of complex and conflicted people trying to live with the things that they can't quite overcome.

Baby, Let's Make a Baby: Plus Ten More Stories

Contemporary

River City Pub

Paroled after ten years in prison, former football star Ennis Skinner reunites with his father, a hero of the civil rights movement, and investigates the disappearance of the daughter of a former girlfriend.

Five Star

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