The Genteel John Ohara

Author : Pamela Carol Mac Arthur
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105151
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genteel John O'Hara written by Pamela Carol Mac Arthur and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer John O'Hara (1905-1970) came from Pottsville in Pennsylvania. He put his home town and the surrounding vicinity under a microscope to produce an account of 'The Anthracite Region' that rivals Edith Wharton's descriptions of New York and Sinclair Lewis's anatomy of Sauk Centre. With the discerning eye of a local resident, O'Hara recreated this coal-rich region and its people so well that his novelettes, novellas, novels, plays and short stories give a true record of his 'Pennsylvania Protectorate' in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. In order to reveal the ethnographical, geographical and historical authenticity of the O'Hara Canon, this book examines his writings in the context of Pottsville and the borough of Tamaqua, as well as the nearby towns and villages. The author also investigates both O'Hara's genteel upbringing and his gangster stratum. The book explores the many dimensions of O'Hara's life from the time of his birth until his escape to New York City in 1928. New sources such as unpublished letters and interviews with O'Hara's family, friends and enemies provide important insights into O'Hara, as well as into Pottsville and the surrounding region.

Author : John O'Hara
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of John O'Hara written by John O'Hara and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1978 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Long
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351589970
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Dream and the Popular Novel written by Elizabeth Long and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, originally published in 1985, examines conceptions of success and the good life expressed in bestselling novels – ranging from historical sagas and spy thrillers to more serious works by Updike, Bellows, Steinbeck and Mailer – published from 1945 to 1975. Using these popular books as cultural evidence, Elizabeth Long argues that the meaning of the American dream has changed dramatically, but in a more complex fashion than has been recognised by that country’s most prominent social critics. Her study presents a challenge to prevailing social-scientific views of contemporary American culture, and represents, both in theory and method, an important contribution to the study of culture and social criticism.

Author : Kathryn Canavan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036165
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Crime Philadelphia written by Kathryn Canavan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-life killers who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire lived and died here. America’s first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country’s first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot in U.S. history in the 1930s. His partners in crime were unhappy housewives. Catholics and Protestants aimed cannon at each other in city streets in 1844. Civil rights hero Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street in 1871. Take a walk with us through city history. Would you pass Eastern State Penitentiary on April 3, 1945, just as famed bank robber Willie Sutton popped out of an escape tunnel in broad daylight? Or you might have been one of the invited guests at H.H. Holmes’ hanging at Moyamensing Prison on a gray morning in May 1896. It still ranks as one of the most bizarre executions in city history. Or, if you walked down Washington Lane on July 1, 1874, would you have been alert enough to stop the two men who lured little blond Charley Ross away with candy? You might have stopped America’s first kidnapping for ransom, the one that gave rise to the admonition, “Never take candy from a stranger.” The case inspired the Leopold and Loeb kidnapping. Then there was the bank robber whose funeral drew thousands of spectators and the burglary defendant so alluring that conversation would stop whenever she entered the courtroom. Mix in murderous maids, bumbling burglars, and unflinching local heroes and you have True Crime Philadelphia.

Author : Robert Emmet Long
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John O'Hara written by Robert Emmet Long and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John O'Hara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara written by John O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John O'Hara's fiction," wrote Lionel Trilling, "is preeminent for its social verisimilitude." Made famous by his bestselling novels, including BUtterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra, O'Hara (1905-1970) also wrote some of the finest short fiction of the twentieth century. First published by the Modern Library in 1956, Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara displays the author's skills as a keen social observer, a refreshingly frank storyteller, and a writer with a brilliant ear for dialogue. "The stories in this volume," writes Louis Begley in his new Introduction, "show the wide range of [O'Hara's] interests and an ability to treat with a virtuoso's ease characters and situations from any place on America's geographic and social spectrum."

Author : Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822974711
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O’Hara Concern written by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1975-07-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John O'Hara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780948456121
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The John O'Hara Omnibus written by John O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Goldleaf
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John O'Hara written by Steven Goldleaf and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth critical introduction to a major short story writer. O'Hara established "The New Yorker" story and has helped pave the way for the next wave of American short fiction.