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Butterfly in the Typewriter

Butterfly in the Typewriter ab 2.49 € als epub eBook: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,

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South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min

A literary travelogue into the heart of classic Southern literature. What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby - herself a Southerner - travels through the South in search of answers to these questions, visiting the hometowns and stomping grounds of some of our most beloved authors. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews) and beyond, Eby looks deeply at the places that these authors lived in and wrote about. South Toward Home reveals how these authors took the people and places they knew best and transmuted them into lasting literature. Side by side with Eby, we meet the man who feeds the peacocks at Andalusia, the Georgia farm where Flannery O'Connor wrote her most powerful stories; we peek into William Faulkner's liquor cabinet to better understand the man who claimed civilization began with distillation and the "postage stamp of native soil" that inspired him; and we go in search of one of New Orleans' iconic hot dog vendors, a job held by Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. From the library that showed Richard Wright that there was a way out to the courtroom at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird, Eby grapples with a land fraught with history and mythology, for, as Eudora Welty wrote, "One place understood helps us understand all places better." Combining biographical detail with expert criticism, Eby delivers a rich and evocative tribute to the literary South. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008887/bk_reco_008887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 721min

Audie Award Nominee, Humor, 2013 The United States Constitution promised a "More Perfect Union". It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution - one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. Until now. Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are about to listen to it. But first, some historical context: In the 18th century, a lawyer named James Madison gathered his friends in Philadelphia and over four long months, wrote four short pages: the Constitution of the United States of America. Not bad. In the 19th century, a president named Abraham Lincoln freed an entire people from the flaws in that Constitution by signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Pretty impressive. And in the 20th century, a doctor at the Bethesda Naval Hospital delivered a baby - but not just any baby. Because in the 21st century, that baby would become a man, that man would become a patriot, and that patriot would rescue a country ... by single-handedly rewriting that Constitution. Why? We think of our Constitution as the painstakingly designed blueprint drawn up by, in Thomas Jefferson’s words, an “assembly of demigods” who laid the foundation for the sturdiest republic ever created. The truth is, it was no blueprint at all but an Etch A Sketch, a haphazard series of blunders, shaken clean and redrawn countless times during a summer of petty debates, drunken ramblings, and desperate compromise - as much the product of an “assembly of demigods” as a confederacy of dunces. No wonder George Washington wished it “had been made more perfect.” No wonder Benjamin Franklin stomached it only “with all its faults.” The Constitution they wrote is a hot mess. For starters, it doesn’t mention slavery, or democracy, or even Facebook; it plays favorites among the states; it has typos, smudges, and misspellings; and its Preamble, i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Bleyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003053/bk_rand_003053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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1980 novels (Book Guide)

1980 novels (Book Guide) ab 30.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Number of the Beast The Name of the Rose A Confederacy of Dunces Child of All Nations Battlefield Earth Dragon's Egg Master of the Five Magics Thrice Upon a Time The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years A Ring of Endless Light. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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