Southern Frontier Humor: An Anthology

If, as a few recommend, American literature begun with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the outdated South without doubt helped us to form that literature. Twain himself discovered to put in writing via interpreting the humorists’ paintings, and later writers have been motivated by way of it. This ebook marks the 1st new choice of humor from that quarter released in fifteen years—and the 1st clean choice of sketches and stories to seem in over 40 years.

Les cracks de l'Arnaque I (FICTION) (French Edition)

De la à Acapulco en passant par Miami jusqu’aux Bahamas, des milliardaires complètement disjonctés et hors l. a. loi se disputent un héritage de $250,000,000 qui va s’avérer être une véritable arnaque de première. Un héros à l. a. limite du détestable entouré de créatures de rêve n'ayant pas vraiment l. a. langue dans leur poche, n'ayant pas froid aux yeux et prêtes à tout pour réussir dans des décors paradisiaques entre ciel bleu, chaleur et volupté.

Conversations with William Maxwell (Literary Conversations Series)

Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and feedback that span 5 a long time of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's profession. The interviews jointly handle everything of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth dialogue of his brief tales, essays, and novels together with They got here Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the yank booklet award-winning goodbye, See You Tomorrow--as good as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor operating with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.

The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything (Penguin Classics)

A glance at Malcolm X's existence and instances from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: a lifetime of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of 1 of America's nice innovative thinkers. This quantity, the 1st selection of significant records addressing Malcolm X in a long time, positive factors never-before-published fabric, together with articles from significant newspapers and underground presses, oral histories, police studies, and FBI documents, to polish a brighter gentle on Malcolm's existence and occasions.