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This is a novel about remembering the recent history of our lives: the hot summers and cold winters of childhood, first love, family rituals and myth, youthful fantasies and adult enchantment.
**** Reprint of the Doubleday edition originally published in 1985 and included in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Owen Wister’s The Virginian, considered by many to be the first fictional western written. As a fictionalized historical account of post-Civil War Western America, The Virginian gives readers a social picture of the West in the late l9th century. Moreover, Wister’s writing encourages discussion concerning the concepts of equality, social standards, and law and justice and reveal the fundamental philosophy which directed society at that time and place. These concepts and philosophies continue to affect politics today. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Wister’s classic work...
An historical survey focusing on seminaries training diocesan clergy (this aspect of the Catholic seminary tradition originated with the Council of Trent's seminary decree of 1563) and not priests of religious orders. The author traces the formation of traditions, the Americanist era, and the Roman direction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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