Vardis Fisher

Author : Michael Austin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053036
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vardis Fisher written by Michael Austin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history. Engrossing and enlightening, Vardis Fisher illuminates the acclaimed author's impact on Mormon culture, American letters, and the literary tradition of the American West.

Author : Michael Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252044090
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vardis Fisher written by Michael Austin and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history. Engrossing and enlightening, Vardis Fisher illuminates the acclaimed author's impact on Mormon culture, American letters, and the literary tradition of the American West.

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781388201739
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Man written by Vardis Fisher and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored after the actual "Crow Killer" John Johnson, Sam Minard is a mountain man who seeks the freedom that the Rocky Mountains offers trappers. After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, a widow who faces madness. This remarkable frontier fiction captures that brief season when the romantic myth of the far West became a fact.

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : New York, Harper [c1939]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of God written by Vardis Fisher and published by New York, Harper [c1939]. This book was released on 1939 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated lining-papers. "First edition."

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870040436
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Or Caesar? written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Woodward
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger on the Road written by Tim Woodward and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete biography of one of the great pioneers of Western literature. Fisher was an author whose lifestyle was as colorful and unpredictable as his writing. He was often controversial, frequently infuriating, and never boring. In a career spanning four decades and thirty-six books, Fisher was a relentless prober of human evasions.

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789127289
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darkness and the Deep written by Vardis Fisher and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KNOWING ONLY NAKED LUST AND FEAR, THEY LIVED BY THEIR DARK AND BRUTAL PASSIONS... This critically acclaimed novel, which was first published in 1943, forms part of author Vardis Fisher’s Testament of Man, the moving and unforgettable chronicle of mankind’s long journey from cave to civilization. WERE THEY MEN...OR ANIMALS? They lived in family groups, as men do. Yet the female was always taken by force, as animals do. They walked upright, as men do. Yet they fought with their teeth and nails, ripping at each other’s flesh, as animals do. These strange and violent people belong to the bloodstained and bestial past of every one of us. These are the first men and women—more of a jungle animal than a human being...and ancestors to all of us. ‘The most ambitious project of the imagination in present-day fiction’—The New York Herald Tribune ‘One of the most brutal and disturbing novels ever written’—The Chicago Daily News ‘It is moving art...worthy of a Dostoievsky.’—William K. Gregory, The New York Times ‘An absorbing narrative...It has style, compression, clarity and a beauty of language...’—Thomas Sugrue, Saturday Review ‘A rare find...you’ll treasure it as a vision of pure delight.’—Arnold Gingrich, The Chicago Sun

Author : Joseph M. Flora
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vardis Fisher written by Joseph M. Flora and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998890982
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vardis Fisher's Boise written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains "The Boise Guide" by Vardis Fisher and the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, originally compiled in 1939 but never before published.