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Author : María Laura Arce Álvarez
Release : 2020-07-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Live Deep and Suck all the Marrow of Life: H.D. Thoreau's Literary Legacy by : María Laura Arce Álvarez
Download or read book Live Deep and Suck all the Marrow of Life: H.D. Thoreau's Literary Legacy written by María Laura Arce Álvarez. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be one of America’s great intellectuals, Thoreau was deeply engaged in some of the most important social debates of his day including slavery, the emergence of consumerism, the American Dream, living on the frontier, the role of the government and the ecological mind. As testimony to Thoreau’s remarkable intellectual heritage, his autobiography, essays and poetry still continue to inspire and attract readers from across the globe. As a celebration of H.D. Thoreau’s Bicentenary (1817-1862), this edited volume offers a re-reading of his works and reconsiders the influence that his transcendentalist philosophy has had on American culture and literature. Taking an intertextual perspective, the contributors to this volume seek to reveal Thoreau’s influence on American Literature and Arts from the 19th century onwards and his fundamental contribution to the development of 20th century American Literature. In particular, this work presents previously unconsidered intertextual analyses of authors that have been influenced by Thoreau’s writings. This volume also reveals how Thoreau’s influence can be read across literary genres and even seen in visual manifestations such as cinema.
Author : John Maclean
Release : 2005
Genre : Athletes with disabilities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 708/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sucking the Marrow Out of Life by : John Maclean
Download or read book Sucking the Marrow Out of Life written by John Maclean. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a near-fatal accident in 1988 left him paraplegic, John Maclean refused to sit back and let the world go by. This work takes the reader on a journey through John's life, discovering the underlying message that life is not about obstacles, or how they came about, but instead about looking inside yourself to find the strength within.
Author : Henry Thoreau
Release : 2005-08-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by : Henry Thoreau
Download or read book Where I Lived, and What I Lived For written by Henry Thoreau. This book was released on 2005-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.
Author : Nancy Larsen-Sanders
Release : 2013-03-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 518/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Marrow of Life by : Nancy Larsen-Sanders
Download or read book The Marrow of Life written by Nancy Larsen-Sanders. This book was released on 2013-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1931 in Fremont County, Kansas, and Deborah Nelsons husband, Christian, disappeared months ago. But Deborah has no time to feel sorry for herself. Two children need her love, livestock require feeding, and farm crops must be tilled. Deborah is desperately trying to survive in a mans worldan especially challenging task for a woman believed to be an Indian. Even after a drought begins to cause dire conditions, Deborah refuses to leave, for her soul is still connected with the land. She decides she must sell her cattle and stop planting wheat and then finds herself fighting a field fire that comes close to burning her farmstead and threatens the life of her old friend. Things go from bad to worse when she, her children, and the community experience the first horrifying dirt storm of the drought. Deborah partners with her closest neighbors to share labor and valuable resources, not realizing that very soon, one neighbor will leave her with five more mouths to feed and a promise he may not be able to keep. The Marrow of Life continues the saga of one womans determined journey through the hardships of the Depression and Dust Bowl era as she slowly comes to the realization that she must turn to others for help.
