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The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

By: George T. Wright

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The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

By: George T. Wright

When my sister and brother and I were growing up on Staten Island, Dad told us very little about his Vermont boyhood, and nothing at all about his father. We respected his silence. We figured he had good reason for it. But long after Dad's death, my sister and I started to look more closely at our family history. Soon we were connected to a world of New England striving and struggle that we came to see as part of our own Vermont heritage. So this is the story of Dad and his mother and brother, and his unreliable father, and his father's five sisters, whom we'd known nothing about before we began our research. It pays tribute to an everyday heroine, Dad's mother, who took her sons to Staten Island to begin a new life when her marriage failed. It also traces earlier Wrights (and forebears with other surnames, like Little, Bailey, Hadley, Hathaway, Shattuck, Blanchard, and Burt) in towns all over Vermont (and New Hampshire and Massachusetts), some of them with their own compelling stories -- farmers, soldiers, railroad men, miners, housewives, and keepers of inns and hotels. These are my Wrights of Vermont.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1604949457

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9781604949452

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory

By: George Saintsbury

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The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory

By: George Saintsbury

Originally published in 1897, "The Flourishing Of Romance And The Rise Of Allegory" is a fascinating treatise by English writer George Saintsbury on Romance. Contents include: "The function of Latin", "Chansons De Geste", "The Matter of Britain", "Antiquity in Romance", "The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody", "Middle High German Poetry", "The 'Fox'", "The 'Rose'", etc. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 - 28 January 1933) was an English writer, scholar, literary historian, critic and wine connoisseur. Other notable works by this author include: "A Primer of French Literature" (1880), "Short History of French Literature" (1882), and "History of Elizabethan Literature" (1887). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473349427

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9781473349421

Starting from Staten Island

Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s

By: George T. Wright

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Starting from Staten Island

Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s

By: George T. Wright

My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten Island for herself and her two sons, Dad and Uncle Ray. This book shows Dad and Mother starting their family on Staten Island and describes our home, our neighborhood, the boarding house where we sometimes dined, the schools we attended, the songs we sang, how we learned to think about money, work, fun, guilt, and politics, and our experience, especially mine, of illness, solitude, and books. Later chapters show our horizons expanding. They tell where we went on outings and how we spent our summers (ours at a riverside cottage near the New Jersey coast, and mine at an unusual summer camp in upstate New York), and they sketch the different world we found when we moved to Manhattan in 1941. I entered Columbia then and began to discover new realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Then at eighteen, with other young men of that time, I was swept up into military service in the U.S. Army and war in France and Germany.

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1627871357

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9781627871358

The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

Vol. VIII

By: Joseph Lemuel Chester,George John Armytage

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The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

Vol. VIII

By: Joseph Lemuel Chester,George John Armytage

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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274

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385339340

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9783385339347

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

By: George T. Wright

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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

By: George T. Wright

This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.

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Univ of California Press

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0520076427

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9780520076426

Book's by George T. Wright

The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory

Starting from Staten Island

Starting from Staten Island

The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

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