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Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill by Frances Boyd Calhoun. Author Frances Boyd Calhoun was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, in 1867, one of five children of a newspaper editor and publisher. The bus drove up to the gate and stopped under the electric street-light. Perched on the box by the big, black negro driver sat a little boy whose slender figure was swathed in a huge rain coat. Miss Minerva was on the porch waiting to receive him. "Mercy on me, child," she said, "what on earth made you ride up there? Why didn't you get inside?" "I jest wanted to ride by Sam Lamb," replied the child as he was lifted down. "An' I see a nice fat little man name' Major-" "He jes' wouldn' ride inside, Miss Minerva," interrupted the driver, quickly, to pass over the blush that rose to the spinster's thin cheek at mention of the Major. "Twan't no use fer ter try ter make him ride nowhars but jes' up by me. He jes' 'fused an' 'fused an' 'sputed an' 'sputed; he jes' tuck ter me f'om de minute he got off 'm de train an' sot eyes on me; he am one easy chile ter git 'quainted wid; so, I jes' h'isted him up by me. Here am his verlise, ma'am."

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-08-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Miss. Minerva and William Green Hill (Classic Reprint)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Miss. Minerva and William Green Hill (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Miss. Minerva and William Green Hill Good-bye, Sam Lamb, said the child as the negro got back on the box and gathered up the reins. I '11 see you to-morrer. Miss Minerva imprinted a thin, old-maid kiss on the sweet, childish mouth. I am your Aunt Minerva, she said, as she picked up his satchel. The little boy carelessly drew the back of his hand across his mouth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age

ÒWhat does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?Ó This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, a prominent and varied group of scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. The distinguished contributors include Robert Bellah, JosŽ Casanova, NilŸfer Gšle, William E. Connolly, Wendy Brown, Simon During, Colin Jager, Jon Butler, Jonathan Sheehan, Akeel Bilgrami, John Milbank, and Saba Mahmood. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book.

When the State Meets the Street
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

When the State Meets the Street

Street level discretion -- Three pathologies: the indifferent, the enforcer, and the caregiver -- A gymnastics of the self: coping with the everyday pressures of street-level work -- When the rules run out: informal taxonomies and peer-level accountability -- Impossible situations: on the breakdown of moral integrity at the frontlines of public service

American Fiction, 1901-1925
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1064

American Fiction, 1901-1925

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-02
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, "I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them." The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day. The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books),...

The Letters of the Republic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Letters of the Republic

The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development.

The Shadow of God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Shadow of God

Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God’s judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure.

BILLY AND THE MAJOR
  • Language: en

BILLY AND THE MAJOR

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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