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William B. Dillingham
A study of Herman Melville’s early novels–Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket–that reveals a powerful achievement in richness of texture, range of effect, and depth of characterization and persuasively demonstrates…
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This study treats comprehensively the sixteen short works that Melville wrote between 1853 and 1856, most of which were published in Harper’s and Putnam’s magazines. Concentrating on his stylistic motivations…
Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville’s literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and…
William B Dillingham
The Practical English Handbook is a comprehensive guide to written and spoken English, covering everything from grammar and punctuation to style and usage. Designed for students, professionals, and anyone seeking…
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Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism is an exploration of two fundamental yet greatly neglected aspects of the author’s life and writings: his deep-seated pessimism and his complex creed of heroism.
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Dillingham shows how Melville used the novels as a workshop for his own salvation by investing his characters with the ideas and philosophies that he found compelling. Linking Melville’s enigmatic…
This anthology offers pieces which embody the characteristically exaggerated and highly imaginative frontier humour of the old Southwest in the period 1835 to 1861. Among the authors represented are Philip…
A new appraisal of the life and work of Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) as a writer of fiction and poetry for both children and adults.
One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humour of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861. Hennig…
William Henry Dillingham
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
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Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast.
