The Voice of the People

2002 Fiction

Author : Jean Vautrin
Release : 2002
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 746/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Voice of the People written by Jean Vautrin. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Grondin, deputy head of the Sureté, is in fact Charles Bassicousse, sentenced sixteen years earlier for a murder he did not commit and obsessed with wreaking his revenge on Antoine Tarpagnan, the man he believes did commit the crime. Tarpagnan, an army captain, has fallen in love with Gabriella Pucci, the mistress of Paris's greatest villain. As Tarpagnan searches the underworld for Gabriella, unknown to him, Grondin is searching for him. Reminiscent of Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES, with the zest for characterisation of Dickens, Vautrin's novel revels in the chaos and passion of the period culminating in the savage repression of the Commune. The final climactic moments between Grondin and Tarpagnan take place on the barricades as Paris descends into a fury of bloodletting and panic. Fiction on a grand scale, Vautrin's multi-peopled novel exuberantly recreates the moment.

Voices of a People's History of the United States

2011-01-04 History

Author : Howard Zinn
Release : 2011-01-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 477/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Voices of a People's History of the United States written by Howard Zinn. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

The Voice of the People

2013-11-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Matthew Campbell
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Voice of the People written by Matthew Campbell. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the European folk revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and focuses on two key practices of antiquarianism: the role that collecting and editing played in the formation of ethnological study in the European academy; and the business of publishing and editing, which produced many ‘folkloric’ texts of dubious authenticity. The volume also presents new readings of various genres, including the epic, song, tale and novel, and contributes to the study of several crucial European literary figures. Above all, it investigates the great anonymous authors of the European folk tradition – in narrative and lyric art – and their relation to the cultural movements and imagined identities of the peoples of the emerging nineteenth-century European nation.

The Voice of the People

2022-11-22 Fiction

Author : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Release : 2022-11-22
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book The Voice of the People written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow. This book was released on 2022-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voice of the People by Ellen Glasgow is about the poor son of a farmer who leaves the law profession to take a job in a store instead. When he gets involved in politics, his life is threatened, and he must decide either to aid the townspeople or act in the name of what is right. Excerpt: "The last day of Circuit Court was over at Kingsborough. The jury had vanished from the semicircle of straight-backed chairs in the old court-house, the clerk had laid aside his pen along with his air of listless attention, and the judge was making his way through the straggling spectators to the sunken stone steps of the platform outside."

The Voice of the People

1997-01-01 Political Science

Author : James S. Fishkin
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 556/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Voice of the People written by James S. Fishkin. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher and political scientist James Fishkin evaluates modern democratic practices, explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past and combines a review of ideas and experiments--including his own idea for a National Issues Convention that was adapted by PBS in January 1996--to legitimately rediscover the people's voice.

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