Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze And Other Stories

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122533X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze written by William Saroyan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saroyan’s debut collection of stories. A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease William Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. One of the first American writers to describe the immigrant experience in the U.S., Saroyan created characters who were Armenians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Africans, and the Irish. The title story touchingly portrays the thoughts of a very young writer, dying of starvation. All of the tales were written during the great depression and reflect, through pathos and humor, the mood of the nation in one of its greatest times of want.

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213653
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories written by William Saroyan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Reprint of the 1934 original (which is cited in BCL3). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Saroyan W.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories written by Saroyan W. and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Saroyan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze written by William Saroyan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9784938429881
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Saroyan
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories, by William Saroyan written by William Saroyan and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Leggett
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Daring Young Man written by John Leggett and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was so famous that Saroyanesque entered the vocabulary of his time, an adjective expressing the childlike sweetness, the evocation of loneliness, the innocence that characterized his work. His name was known to anyone in America who read a magazine, listened to the radio, cared about theater, or bought a book. At one time he had three plays simultaneously on Broadway, including My Heart’s in the Highlands and The Time of Your Life (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics’ Circle Award). His first collection of stories, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, was published by Bennett Cerf when Saroyan was twenty-six years old; it was a critical and commercial success. Saroyan went to Hollywood and wrote The Human Comedy over a Christmas holiday; it became a major wartime movie and won him an Oscar for best screenplay. His writing was a mixture of old-world suffering and new-world optimism. But for all of his promise and brilliance, and his half-century struggle to reach the pantheon of American writers, his gift was not large enough to sustain him. Now, in this full-scale biography, John Leggett gives us Saroyan whole, from the immigrant boy and his lonely orphanage years to the internationally acclaimed American writer. Here is the all-encompassing story —the fun, the follies, the lights, and the shadows of his life. Leggett writes about Saroyan’s roller-coaster courtship and two marriages to the beautiful Carol Marcus (she was seventeen and he thirty-four when they met); about his relationships with his publishers and with his long-time agent, Hal Matson; about his friendships with Budd Schulberg, Irwin Shaw, George Jean Nathan, and others, and the many productions (on Broadway and off) of Saroyan’s plays. He writes about Saroyan’s constant struggle with his addictions to gambling and extravagant living . . . his disappointments as a writer and his undiminished belief in his own talent, a belief that it would prevail, no matter how many colleagues turned away from his excesses and his demands. Drawing on interviews and on Saroyan’s letters, notes, and diaries, John Leggett, author of Ross and Tom (“A great book”—Leon Edel), gives us a revealing portrait of the man and the writer whose work charmed and touched the heart of mid-twentieth-century America.

Author : William Saroyan
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Download or read book The William Saroyan Reader written by William Saroyan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dave Jackson
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ISBN 13 : 9781939445186
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danger on the Flying Trapeze written by Dave Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANGER ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE: Introducing D.L. Moody -- Fourteen-year-old Casey Watkins wants nothing more than to escape his family's dreary, bare-bones life in the Philadelphia of 1893. When he learns of an opening in Adam Forepaugh's Circus, it seems like the perfect escape, and he convinces his mother and sister to join with him. Then "The Flying Eugenes," a family of trapeze artists, offer Casey a role in their death-defying act, and he is elated. Flying on the trapeze is more exciting than he ever dreamed! The pressure is on-Casey has only a few weeks to learn the act before the circus arrives in Chicago in time for the famous World's Fair. Once in Chicago, the boy is fascinated by D. L. Moody, the dynamic evangelist who preaches to standing-room-only crowds in the circus Big Top Sunday mornings. Casey never imagined that church could be more popular than the circus! But then a dangerous accident leaves him paralyzed with fear, and he runs to Moody looking for a way out. Will the evangelist be able to help him? The circus is counting on him . . . what if he falls?

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212052
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories written by William Saroyan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a selection of the master of human comedy's short stories from the 1930s and 1940s