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American Vandal - Mark Twain Abroad (Hardcover): Roy Morris American Vandal - Mark Twain Abroad (Hardcover)
Roy Morris
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books-The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator-he wrote about his adventures. Unintimidated by Old World sophistication and unafraid to travel to less developed parts of the globe, Twain encouraged American readers to follow him around the world at the dawn of mass tourism, when advances in transportation made leisure travel possible for an emerging middle class. In so doing, he helped lead Americans into the twentieth century and guided them toward more cosmopolitan views. In his first book, The Innocents Abroad (1869), Twain introduced readers to the "American Vandal," a brash, unapologetic visitor to foreign lands, unimpressed with the local ambiance but eager to appropriate any souvenir that could be carried off. He adopted this persona throughout his career, even after he grew into an international celebrity who dined with the German Kaiser, traded quips with the king of England, gossiped with the Austrian emperor, and negotiated with the president of Transvaal for the release of war prisoners. American Vandal presents an unfamiliar Twain: not the bred-in-the-bone Midwesterner we associate with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer but a global citizen whose exposure to other peoples and places influenced his evolving positions on race, war, and imperialism, as both he and America emerged on the world stage.

Gertrude Stein Has Arrived - The Homecoming of a Literary Legend (Hardcover): Roy Morris Gertrude Stein Has Arrived - The Homecoming of a Literary Legend (Hardcover)
Roy Morris
R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name. In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Pantomiming the voice of her partner Alice, The Autobiography was actually Gertrude's work. But whoever the real author was, the uncharacteristically lucid and readable book won over the hearts of thousands of Americans, whose clamor to meet Gertrude and Alice in person convinced them to return to America for the first time in thirty years from their self-imposed exile in France. For more than six months, Gertrude and Alice crisscrossed America, from New England to California, from Minnesota to Texas, stopping at thirty-seven different cities along the way. They had tea with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, attended a star-studded dinner party at Charlie Chaplin's home in Beverly Hills, enjoyed fifty-yard-line seats at the annual Yale-Dartmouth football game, and rode along with a homicide detective through the streets of Chicago. They met with the Raven Society in Edgar Allan Poe's old room at the University of Virginia, toured notable Civil War battlefields, and ate Oysters Rockefeller for the first time at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans. Everywhere they went, they were treated like everyone's favorite maiden aunts-colorful, eccentric, and eminently quotable. In Gertrude Stein Has Arrived, noted literary biographer Roy Morris Jr. recounts with characteristic energy and wit the couple's rollicking tour, revealing how-much to their surprise-they rediscovered their American roots after three decades of living abroad. Entertaining and sympathetic, this clear-eyed account captures Gertrude Stein for the larger-than-life legend she was and shows the unique relationship she had with her indefatigable companion, Alice B. Toklas-the true power behind the throne.

The Better Angel - Walt Whitman in the Civil War (Paperback, Revised): Roy Morris The Better Angel - Walt Whitman in the Civil War (Paperback, Revised)
Roy Morris
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first full account of Whitman's Civil War years sheds new light on the man, his poetry, and the treatment of the war's sick and wounded.

The Devil's Dictionary (Hardcover): Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (Hardcover)
Ambrose Bierce; Introduction by Roy Morris
R1,867 R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Save R891 (48%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self-Esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement.

These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.

The Devil's Dictionary (Paperback): Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
Ambrose Bierce; Introduction by Roy Morris
R516 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ambrose Bierce once wrote a review that should be posted in every publisher's office: 'The covers of this book are too far aprt.' Described as 'an eccentric who remains wickedly quotable', Bierce was one of the most celebrated reporters of his eara. He bu8ilt his literary reputation partly on The Devil's Dictionary, a satiric lexicon first published as The Cyni's Word Book in 1906, and later reissued under the author's preferred titled in 1911. The barbed definitions that Bierce began publishing in the Wasp, a weekly journal he edited in San Francisco from 1881-1886 brought this 19th century stock form to a new level of artistry. Bierce lampooned social, professionsl, and religious convention as in his definitions for bore-'A person who talks when you wish him to listen'; architect -'One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money',; and saint-'A dead sinner, revised and edited.'

Ambrose Bierce - Alone in Bad Company (Paperback): Roy Morris Ambrose Bierce - Alone in Bad Company (Paperback)
Roy Morris
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ambrose Bierce is one of the most acerbic and distinctive voices in American literature. A master of the short story, the aphorism and the insult, he is remembered as much for his one-liners, his misanthropy and his enigmatic death as for his published works. In addition to tracing an unusual life, Morris assesses Bierce's Civil War experiences and the writings they spawned. Morris's portrait of Bierce goes beyond chronicling his eccentricities, showing him to be a loyal friend, an heroic soldier, and an often brilliant writer.

Sheridan - The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (Paperback, 1st Vintage Civil War library ed): Roy Morris Sheridan - The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (Paperback, 1st Vintage Civil War library ed)
Roy Morris
R519 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R49 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marine Corps Mustang (Paperback): Roy Morris Marine Corps Mustang (Paperback)
Roy Morris
R518 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R74 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Microscope (Paperback): Roy Morris Allen The Microscope (Paperback)
Roy Morris Allen
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Microscope (Hardcover): Roy Morris Allen The Microscope (Hardcover)
Roy Morris Allen
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daughter of the Jaguar - The Treasure of Sierra Madre Del Sur (Paperback): Roy Morris Daughter of the Jaguar - The Treasure of Sierra Madre Del Sur (Paperback)
Roy Morris
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

DAUGHTER OF THE JAGUAR is an action-adventure/romance involving a former Marine troubled by his uncanny ability to recall events long past and a Mexican girl whom, though she opposes his opinions, he learns to treasure as no other. Laced with life-altering experience, twists of fate and humor, it is rich in revelations about Cortez's conquest of the Aztecs and the magnificent stone heads of the ancient Olmecs. When a Cessna bound for Oaxaca bearing Peter Stedman and two colleagues from THE DENVER POST is forced to land at ancient site in a remote region of the Southern Sierra Madres, its occupants elude would-be bandits to arrive at the idyllic town of Las Minas. Here, Peter meets Leonor, a beautiful woman considered to be a bruja or witch by locals. They share an intense romance, including a remarkable discovery Leonor has made of the ancient Olmecs who claimed descent from the mating of a woman and a jaguar. Uncertain about his ability to sustain Leonor's affection and the gulf between his abiding faith and her lack, Peter Ponders the feasibility of their relationship when he and his companions are forced to flee from a hurricane. Later, returning to Denver, Peter undergoes a painful realization that compels him to find Leonor again--resulting in a death-defying climb up a canyon wall, capture by the same bandits he eluded earlier, a jarring encounter with junkyard jaguars and the discovery of a treasure he is fleetingly allowed to witness dating back to the Spanish conquest.

Memory and Myth - The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain (Paperback): S. Kittrell... Memory and Myth - The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain (Paperback)
S. Kittrell Rushing, David Sachsman; Edited by Roy Morris
R761 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R118 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Memory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers. Its twenty-five chapters are all concerned, in one way or another, with creative responses to the Civil War, and the ways in which artists have sought to make sense of the war and to convey their findings to succeeding generations of readers and filmgoers. The book also examines the role of movies and television in transmuting the historical memories of the Civil War into durable, ever-changing myths.

Declaring His Genius - Oscar Wilde in North America (Hardcover, New): Roy Morris Declaring His Genius - Oscar Wilde in North America (Hardcover, New)
Roy Morris
R656 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R70 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: "We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?" Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post-Civil War Americans-still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history-understood themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.

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