The crowded joys and familiar despair of poor, back-alley life in 1950 Pittsburgh have a hold on most people there, but there are those who need to escape. Jeremiah Henderson and his woman, Willet Mercer, set their sights on New York City - but making good is easier said than done. Left with no choice but to give in to the pimp who'd like to try Willet on for size before selling her to his clientele, Jeremiah and Willet try to focus on the future. But just before the pimp has his way with her, Willet balks, stabbing him to death in the back of his car. Horrified, but, nonetheless now flush with the pimp's fat wad and fancy Buick, it looks as if they may be in sight of their dreams; they just have to make one last stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, where Willet intends to see the little boy she abandoned long ago.
In the small Mississippi town of Banes in 1938, time passes slowly and the town's inhabitants follow the same daily rhythm as they have done for years.
Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi, in 1937. Constructed in a series of powerfully lean vignettes, Billy is a tour de force of dramatic compression, focusing on how this outrageous event affects an entire community. The high-spirited Billy, his mysterious and passionate mother, Cinder, and his friend Gumpy are realized with depth and authority. Told in classic, unrelieved terms yet with remarkable compassion and restraint, their story is an unsentimental and ultimately heart-rending vision of racial injustice. "A work of art . . . Billy never lets up, not for a minute . . . The images rush straight to your brain. . . . Magnificient."--Bill McKibben, New York Daily News "Althought I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all too brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life. That's how powerfully and dramatically written this book is."--Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land "Billy's strength is not strictly as a novel; it lives as theater. It is a folk opera that . . . moves with unfaltering pace to its shattering climax."--New York Newsday
Holly is the story of a poor, white girl in 1944 North Carolina, whose lonely world is transformed by a handsome, educated black soldier from the war - and of the town's savage response to their romance. An indictment, a love story, and evocation of a time and place, it confirms Albert French as a dark and passionate chronicler of American mores and culture
Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the region in the time of the Depression. 'Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams', Tim O'Brien author of The Things They Carried
A story is a door to life. It is a flash, a movie, when told by a master. A wonderfully dynamic story "The Adulterous Woman" by the Nobel prize winner, writer-existentialist Albert Camus, will open for you a door into someone's life that could be as well yours. The author of the book invites you to see a beautiful movie in four languages Each of us imagines things a certain way, prompted by a great story-teller. While "seeing the movie", you will become familiar with the beautiful language of the story as expressed in FOUR WORLD LANGUAGES: French, Spanish, English, Russian. All the four languages are presented on one page, in separate paragraphs. This format works with any e-device since it is not necessary to match the paired pages. The book includes grammar notes and a few entertaining cross-language exercises. Zoia Eliseyeva has two trilingual books based on world literature masterpieces by Anton Chekhov and Oscar Wilde (ENG-RUS-SPA). This four-language book is Zoia's first book in four languages. It has been her dream to compare the four languages that she loves. Any reader, a student, a teacher, or a traveler will enjoy the book and benefit from it: the talent of Albert Camus is worth studying and discussing. Why do we live? Why do we act certain ways? The eternal questions a person asks without getting an answer. Zoia Eliseyeva teaches three languages. She has Master's Degree in Education. Her first stories were published twenty years ago in Russia and in USA.
Title: The Evolution of France under the Third Republic ... Translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood. Authorized edition with special preface and additions, and introdtion by Dr. Albert Shaw. With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Coubertin, Pierre de; Hapgood, Isabel Florence; Shaw, Albert; 1897 xli, 430 p.; 8 . 09225.g.3.
Title: The Evolution of France under the Third Republic ... Translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood. Authorized edition with special preface and additions, and introdtion by Dr. Albert Shaw. With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Coubertin, Pierre de; Hapgood, Isabel Florence; Shaw, Albert; 1898. 8 . 9231.l.16.
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Originally published in 1956, this masterly essay weaves together the results of research with an independence of judgement which could only come from a long-established expert in the field of Revolutionary studies. The book examines the causes of the French Revolution and the economics involved in the weakness of France’s pre-revolutionary form of government as well as the administrative complexity which was an effective stumbling block in the way of monarchy. As well as charting key events in the revolution, the conclusion discusses the significance of the French Revolution in the context of other revolutions in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Originally published in 1956, this masterly essay weaves together the results of research with an independence of judgement which could only come from a long-established expert in the field of Revolutionary studies. The book examines the causes of the French Revolution and the economics involved in the weakness of France’s pre-revolutionary form of government as well as the administrative complexity which was an effective stumbling block in the way of monarchy. As well as charting key events in the revolution, the conclusion discusses the significance of the French Revolution in the context of other revolutions in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
