A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Reference Publication in Literature) [Hardcover]

A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Reference Publication in Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

History & Criticism

G.K. Hall

A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Herman Melville (Reference Publication in Literature)

A memoir of the first eighteen years in the life of a daughter of Italian immigrants growing up in a nurturing household in the Italian neighborhood on the near north side of Chicago through the depression years of the 1930s and into the 1940s. How the values and traditions of her family both enriched and collided with her American environment is the focus of the story. The details of her childhood include wine-making in the cellar, picnics in the cemetery, and birthdays on the tilt-a-whirl. She tells of starting kindergarten without knowing a word of English, of learning to roller-skate in the kitchen, and of discovering as a freshman in college that the community she loved was considered a slum. In the telling, her family comes to life -- her beloved Nonna Vera, who credited her with giving her a reason for living; her big and gentle father, who loved good food as much as he loved telling a good story; and her mother, who set the moral standards for the extended family, and especially for her only child. Double cousins, an American boyfriend, a troubled aunt, and a tyrant uncle round out the cast of this personal story that captures the humor and the frustrations familiar to the children of immigrants from all over the world who came to American in search of a better life.

Growing Up Italian in Chicago

Bertani Books

<p>The myths and mysteries of Emily Dickinson's life have long dominated the popular culture surrounding this icon of American poetry. The questions persist: Who was this closeted genius who dressed in white and live the circumspect life of a New England spinster while secretly writing sublime erotic poetry that was discovered in a locked box in her room after her death? Lea Newman's Emily Dickinson, Virgin Recluse and Rebel uses thirty-six of Emily's key poems to reveal the facts behind the myth. Newman juxtaposes each poem with a background essay about the people and life-altering events that shaped the poet's experience and fueled her imagination. Ranging from the ecstasy of sexual fulfillment to the bitter-sweet acceptance of renunciation; from the rejection of religious dogma to the celebration of nature's beauty; from the terror of death, madness and despair to the fun of being nobody like a frog, her amazing poems reflect her life even as the life illuminates the poetry.</p>

Emily Dickinson

Northshire Press

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