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Orion on the Dunes
A masterful portrait of an essential and unexamined American writer.
Why Read Thoreau's Walden?
What makes Henry David Thoreau's WALDEN one of the fundamental benchmarks in the canon of American literature and philosophy? What role has the book played in the development of modern thought, and what relevance does it have for today's reader? Noted scholar Daniel G. Payne (SUNY, Oneonta) ponders these and other questions, and in the course of his meditation considers Henry Thoreau's influences and inspirations along with his biases and priorities - revealing a complex man intent on living a life not only provocatively unique but also carefully examined.
Daniel Alexander Payne
This detailed biography gives a portrait of the life of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina. This work highlights his life as educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Payne was a strong voice for the freedom of his enslaved brothers and sisters of color as well as a vociferous supporter of general and theological education. Upon his election as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1863, Payne became the first African American to lead an institution of higher education in the United States. In addition to exploring his work within the United States, this biography highlights and includes sources from Payne’s travels, work, and reception in nineteenth century Europe.
Voices in the Wilderness
American nature writers as literary artists & political catalysts.
The Necessity of God
When it comes to the divine existence, there is perhaps no greater or more complex question than "Who or what caused God?" This query is frequently used as a counter to arguments in favor of God's existence. But if everything must have a cause, what caused God? As a response, it is essential to understand that the Argument from Contingency does not necessarily affirm that everything must have a cause. As you delve deeper into this argument, you might begin to perceive a pattern of interconnectedness that threads through every entity in the universe. However, this chain of contingency must find its anchor somewhere. The Argument from Contingency proposes that this anchor is a being that is independent and necessary - a being upon which everything else is contingent.
The Life of Daniel Alexander Payne, D. D. , LL. D (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Life of Daniel Alexander Payne, D.D., LL. D No one perhaps is better prepared to write a Mono graph on the life of the late Bishop Daniel A. Payne, D. D., LL. D., than Rev. C. S. Smith D. D., whose de voted friendship for the Bishop, growing out of a num ber of years of close official relationship, warrants him that knowledge which an eager public solicits of the character of one who was held in such high esteem as was Bishop Payne. There will be a demand for this Monograph on the life of the oldest Bishop in the A. M. E. Church, and the one who held the office of a Bishop longer than any one who has yet occupied the episcopal chair in any branch of the Methodist family It w...
The Skin Artist
The morning Bill Becker awakes to find the butterfly tattoo, its wings poised for flight upon his chest, he is aroused and terrified by the itch of new possibilities-and addictions, including Lucy, the tattooed dancer who leads him on a quest for self-understanding. Both Lucy and Bill wrap themselves in new skins of ink, wrought by the same artist, a "shaman" who convinces them that every design will alter their futures.Exiled from his corporate life and from the failed marriage he left behind in a gated community, Bill journeys through the dark side of Charlotte, North Carolina, where he meets con artists and displaced hillbillies, each of them seeking transformation in the Queen City. Ultimately, Bill confronts the necessity to leave the city in search of his rural roots. There he must come to terms with his estranged family and with the skin he shed many years ago.
Writing the Land
At the time of his death in 1921, John Burroughs (1837-1921) was America’s most beloved nature writer, a best-selling author whose friends and admirers included Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison. Burroughs was second only to Emerson in fostering the nature study movement of the nineteenth- century, and the popularity of his work inspired Houghton Mifflin to publish or reissue the work of numerous other nature writers, including that of Thoreau and Muir. His first collection of essays, Wake-Robin, was published in 1871, and over the next fifty years Burroughs wrote almost two dozen books, and hundreds of essays—not only on nature, but on literature...
Being Happy
Happiness. It's something we all strive for, but sometimes it feels elusive, like trying to catch a slippery fish with buttered hands. What if I told you that there is a simple and powerful way to enhance your happiness? Find the secrets in Being Happy.
