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Donald Edward Davis
The American Chestnut tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early…
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Donald Davis
This cycle of original stories features unusual, remarkable, and dear people whom the author has known. Although everyone has a story, not everybody has a remarkable storyteller like Donald Davis…
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Donald Davie,Doreen Davie
Donald Davie (1922-1995) was a great critic of the 18th century, its literature, its religion and politics, its culture in the broadest sense, because he took his creative bearings from…
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Donald Davie
Deals with nature, religion, self-worth, dreams, the past, travel, criticism, individuality, and hope.
Walter Donald Kennedy, James Ronald Kennedy
Jefferson Davis was a proponent of the high road to emancipation. He looked to the day in which slaves would be prepared to live within and participate in a democratic…
Davies Donald,Donald Davies
This book provides an in-depth examination and discussion concerning the most important financial aspect of laytime which can affect all voyage charter parties and international contracts for the sale of…
Donald Davie’s poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English…
James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy
JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS A PROPONENT of the high road to emancipation. He looked to the day in which slaves would be prepared to live within and participate in a democratic…
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Donald G. Davis
There’s something about school that infuses the work of Donald Davis and he has collected his all-time favorite school stories in the book. Whether we’re traveling around the world, watching…
An analysis of the major voices in the contemporary poetic traditions of England, Ireland, and America
Born on January 1, 1900, on a family farm in the mountains of North Carolina, Medford McGee grows up awestruck by the rapid changes that blazon the New American Century…
Stop talking! You’re supposed to be working on language!
The author presents eight short stories about his mother and other family members as they grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
In this book, the award winning author shares humorous childhood memories of Christmas with his family in rural Appalachia.
Under Briggflatts is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries. It has grown naturally…
Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for…
This volume explores how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers gave them a different force and moral value from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. It also examines the major theories…
Contains the first two prose books of the eminent poet and literary critic, Donald Davie. The Purity of Diction and Articulate Energy are primary critical texts, which have shaped the…
Donald Davis was a young United Methodist minister when the telephone rang one morning. It’s your daddy, the caller said, Mama just couldn’t get him awake this morning. He is…
Sleep medicine is a modern discipline, but its field of knowledge is already extensive. This results from the progress made in understanding sleep-wake mechanisms, the development of reliable means of…
This collection of poems presents the best work of acclaimed poet Donald Davie, spanning his long and distinguished career. From early poems written while serving in the British Army during…
Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem, Our Father . This ten-part meditation broke a seven-year poetic silence. This book contains a body of…
An critical introduction to Yeats, Pound and Eliot by the pre-eminent Modernist critic, Donald Davie.
First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth…
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First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth…
In this collection of essays on American poetry, edited by his widow, Donald Davie starts with Walt Whitman, displaying the poet’s influence on the Modernists and their successors, covering such…
Telling Your Own Stories is designed for families, teachers, counselors anyone who wants to inspire storytelling either in themselves or in others. Through a series of memory prompts, the user…
Donald A Davis
This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor–Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto–and the courageous young American…
Donald Davis grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina hearing stories that most American children have never heard. He did not know he was hearing anything special, but…
Donald Davie is one of the foremost literary critics of his generation and a poet of some renown. His study of the eighteenth-century English hymn reclaims a rich and important…
Donald Davis was inspired to write this book after his wife, who spent her life leading others to the Lord, died of cancer.
He explains how faith has gotten him…
Owen Davis,Donald Davis
Don Davis,Donald A Davis
This is the true story of a dream holiday that turned into a living nightmare for three tourists, Joan Rogers and her daughters Michelle and Christie.
Davis,Donald S Davis
The mountains of Northwest Georgia encapsulate a lifetime of rich and varied stories, both of the land and its own natural bounty and the countless people who have drawn sustenance…
Ross Davies
In this, the first scholarly biography of Donald Hankey - the ‘Student in Arms’ of the first world war - Ross Davies recovers his life, from his birth into a…
Leslie Pina,Donald-Brian Johnson
This first-ever book devoted solely to Whiting & Davis captures all the charm and splendor of the companys mesh bags, past and present, in over 600 color photos, vintage ads…
Stuart Wright
This annotated bibliography provides the first comprehensive listing of the works of Donald Davie, an internationally known British poet and critic who has become a part of America’s academic and…
Charles Davies
A fresh, outsider’s view of the American President and his on-going battles with mainstream media.
