The Honor Of A Newsboy Stories

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0440339480
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honor of a Newsboy (Stories) written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post–World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Determined to trip up a murder suspect, a small-town police chief relies on the good word of a scrupulous newspaper delivery boy whose dedication to his craft—and to his cowardly father—may hold the key to cracking the case. The Honor of a Newsboy and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut's unique voice had been stilled forever—and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609808088
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Stories written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln High's band director and nice guy George Hemholtz), and "Futuristic"—these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines and collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books; here for the first time five previously unpublished stories; as well as a handful of others that were published online and read by few. During his lifetime Vonnegut published fewer than half of the stories he wrote, his agent telling him in 1958 upon the rejection of a particularly strong story, "Save it for the collection of your works which will be published someday when you become famous. Which may take a little time." Selected and introduced by longtime Vonnegut friends and scholars Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz, Complete Stories puts Vonnegut's great wit, humor, humanity, and artistry on full display. An extraordinary literary feast for new readers, Vonnegut fans, and scholars alike.

Author : Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760227
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Christmas written by Stephen Nissenbaum and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol, The Battle for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it helps us better understand our present.

Author : Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195320255
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crying the News written by Vincent DiGirolamo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chroniclingtheir exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them.

Author : McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday written by McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0440339499
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Look at the Birdie (Short Story) written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post–World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. How do you plan the perfect murder? Belly up to the bar with Vonnegut's narrator and listen as a self-proclaimed "murder counselor" outlines his fool-proof program for getting rid of your enemies—and assuring yourself a guaranteed annuity income for life. Look at the Birdie and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut's unique voice had been stilled forever—and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Children's Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Boys' Workers Round Table written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hanno Hardt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816627073
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsworkers written by Hanno Hardt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the period from the 1850s through the 1930s, the contributors show how issues of labor and class have been far more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede. These essays recover the history of ethnic and cultural diversity--including the contributions of women--that have enriched the process of communication.

Author : American Unitarian Association. Ladies' Commission on Sunday-School Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual List of Books for Sunday-school and Other Libraries ... written by American Unitarian Association. Ladies' Commission on Sunday-School Books and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: