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7 Best Short Stories by John Fox Jr.

By: John Fox Jr.

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7 Best Short Stories by John Fox Jr.

By: John Fox Jr.

John Fox Jr. was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region. This book contains: - On Hell-Fer-Sartain Creek. - Through The Gap. - A Trick O' Trade. - Grayson's Baby. - Courtin' On Cutshin. - The Message In The Sand. - The Senator's Last Trade.

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8577776913

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The Heart of the Hills

By: John FoxJr.

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The Heart of the Hills

By: John FoxJr.

First published in 1913, The Heart of the Hills is the last novel completed by John Fox Jr. and the final piece in his mountain trilogy. This companion to The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is crucial to an understanding of Fox's views. In The Heart of the Hills Fox revises his earlier thoughts about mountain people. He depicts more clearly than in his previous work just how they were exploited by outside industrialists-those men who, in the words of Fox's hero Jason Hawn, "got rich diggin' our coal an' cuttin' our timber." He also reveals the long-term impact of this exploitation on the environment. Having witnessed the ravages of clearcutting on his travels through the mountain country of Kentucky and Virginia in 1911-1912, Fox was all the more receptive to the warnings voiced by his environmentally conscious father. From their letters and diaries it is clear that John Fox Sr.'s influence permeates The Heart of the Hills; in this work, dedicated to his dying father, Fox determined to make amends to the mountain people.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318987X

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7 best short stories by John Fox Jr.

By: John Fox Jr.,August Nemo

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7 best short stories by John Fox Jr.

By: John Fox Jr.,August Nemo

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3968581407

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9783968581408

Essential Novelists - John Fox Jr.

By: John Fox Jr.,August Nemo

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Essential Novelists - John Fox Jr.

By: John Fox Jr.,August Nemo

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of John Fox Jr. which are The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and A Cumberland Vendetta. John Fox Jr. was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region.Novels selected for this book: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.A Cumberland Vendetta.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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3969444802

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

By: John Fox

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

By: John Fox

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 1908 and 1909.

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1482767511

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia

By: John E. Kleber

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia

By: John E. Kleber

The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.

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0813128838

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9780813128832

The Heart of the Hills

By: John Fox

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The Heart of the Hills

By: John Fox

Young Jason Hawn struggles to identify with his father Arch while watching the man work with industrialists and capitalists to take advantage of natural resources in the Kentucky hills.

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0813108829

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Pulpit and People

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Baptist Life and Thought

By: John H. Y. Briggs

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Pulpit and People

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Baptist Life and Thought

By: John H. Y. Briggs

The eighteenth century was a crucial time in Baptist history. The denomination had its roots in seventeenth-century English Puritanism and Separatism And The persecution of the Stuart kings, with only a limited measure of freedom after 1689. Worse, however, was to follow for with toleration came doctrinal conflict, a move away from central Christian understandings and a loss of evangelistic urgency. Both spiritual and numerical decline ensued, To the extent that the denomination was virtually reborn as rather belatedly it came to benefit from the Evangelical Revival which brought new life to both Arminian and Calvinistic Baptists. it has, however, been strongly argued that those who were associated with Bristol College had a continuous tradition of Evangelical Calvinism and that the General Baptists of the South Midlands And The Home Counties, owing as much To The legacy of the Lollards as to Dutch Anabaptism, did not succumb to heterodoxy. The papers in this volume therefore study a denomination in transition, and relate to theology, their views of the church and its mission, Baptist spirituality, and engagement with radical politics.

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1608991644

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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 15

By: Anthony Hope Hawkins,E. Pauline Johnson,Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins,John Fox Jr.,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Neith Boyce,Owen Wister,Rabindranath Tagore,W.C. Morrow,WILHELM HAUFF

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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 15

By: Anthony Hope Hawkins,E. Pauline Johnson,Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins,John Fox Jr.,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Neith Boyce,Owen Wister,Rabindranath Tagore,W.C. Morrow,WILHELM HAUFF

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: W. C. Morrow: - His Unconquerable Enemy. - A Game Of Honor. - The Resurrection Of Little Wang Tai. - Two Singular Men. - The Faithful Amulet. - Over An Absinthe Bottle. - The Hero Of The Plague.Wilhelm Hauff: - The Severed Hand. - The Cold Heart. - The Little Glass Man. - The Story Of The Caliph Stork. - The Story Of Little Muck. - Nose, The Dwarf. - How The Stories Were Found.Rabindranath Tagore: - The Cabuliwallah. - The Home-Coming. - Onde There Was A King. - The Child's Return. - Master Mashai. - Subha. - The Postmaster.Owen Wister: - The Jimmyjohn Boss. - A Kinsman of Red Cloud. - Sharon's Choice. - Napoleon Shave-Tail. - Twenty Minutes for Refreshments. - The Promised Land. - Hank's Woman.Neith Boyce: - Two Women. - Sophia. - Molly. - The Blue Hood. - Love in a Dutch Garden. - Navidad. - The Mother.Mary Roberts Rinehart: - Affinities. - The Family Friend. - Clara's Little Escapade. - The Borrowed House. - Sauce For The Gander. - Twenty-Two. - Jane.John Fox Jr: - On Hell-Fer-Sartain Creek. - Through The Gap. - A Trick O' Trade. - Grayson's Baby. - Courtin' On Cutshin. - The Message In The Sand. - The Senator's Last Trade.Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins: - Silent Sam. - His Mother. - In The Matter Of Art. - Tammany's Tithes. - The Devil's Doings. - The Hired Man. - Larkin.E. Pauline Johnson: - The Shagganappi. - A Red Girl's Reasoning. - The King's Coin. - The Derelict. - Little Wolf-Willow. - Her Majesty's Guest. - The Brotherhood.Anthony Hope: - The Adventure of Lady Ursula. - Aspirations—Explanations. - A Cut and a Kiss. - Promising. - Imagination. - Uncle John and the Rubies. - Lucifera.

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8577777006

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Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage

Two Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and Culture

By: John van Willigen

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Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage

Two Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and Culture

By: John van Willigen

A Southern historian combs through Kentucky cookbooks from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth to reveal a fascinating cultural narrative. In Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage, John van Willigen explores the Bluegrass State's cultural and culinary history, through the rich material found in regional cookbooks. He begins in 1839, with Lettice Bryan's The Kentucky Housewife, which includes pre-Civil War recipes intended for use by a household staff instead of an individual cook, along with instructions for serving the family. Van Willigen also shares the story of the original Aunt Jemima—the advertising persona of Nancy Green, born in Montgomery County, Kentucky—who was one of many African American voices in Kentucky culinary history. Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage is a journey through the history of the commonwealth, showcasing the shifting attitudes and innovations of the times. Analyzing the historical importance of a wide range of publications, from the nonprofit and charity cookbooks that flourished at the end of the twentieth century to the contemporary cookbook that emphasizes local ingredients, van Willigen provides a valuable perspective on the state's social history.

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0813146909

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9780813146904

The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed.

By: John Kenneth Muir

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The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed.

By: John Kenneth Muir

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen! This expanded and updated edition of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers important developments in the popular genre; adds new shows such as Heroes and Zoom; includes the latest films featuring icons like Superman, Spiderman and Batman; and covers even more types of superheroes. Each entry includes a detailed history, cast and credits, episode and film descriptions, critical commentaries, and data on arch-villains, gadgets, comic-book origins and super powers, while placing each production into its historical context. Appendices list common superhero conventions and cliches; incarnations; memorable ad lines; and the best, worst, and most influential productions from 1951 to 2008.

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McFarland

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0786437553

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9780786437559

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

By: John Fox

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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

By: John Fox

This powerful novel is one of the most perceptive tellings of the Civil War experience.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813101727

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9780813101729

Movie-Made Appalachia

History, Hollywood, and the Highland South

By: John C. Inscoe

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Movie-Made Appalachia

History, Hollywood, and the Highland South

By: John C. Inscoe

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia's people. Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John C. Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and depraved hillbillies. Rather, the films he highlights serve as effective conduits into the region's past, some grounded firmly in documented realities and life stories, others only loosely so. In either case, they deserve more credit than they have received for creating sympathetic and often complex characters who interact within families, households, and communities amidst a wide array of historical contingencies. They provide credible and informative narratives that respect the specifics of the times and places in which they are set. Having used many of these movies as teaching tools in college classrooms, Inscoe demonstrates the cumulative effect of analyzing them in terms of shared themes and topics to convey far more generous insights into Appalachia and its history than one would have expected to emerge from southern California's "dream factory.

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1469660156

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9781469660158

No One Avoided Danger

NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941

By: John F Di Virgilio,Robert J Cressman,J Michael Wenger

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No One Avoided Danger

NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941

By: John F Di Virgilio,Robert J Cressman,J Michael Wenger

“No One Avoided Danger” is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O‘ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe’s location—15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day’s infamous attack on Pearl Harbor—military historians have largely ignored the station’s story. Moreover, there is an understandable tendency to focus on the massive destruction sustained by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, however, were equally destructive and no less disastrous, notwithstanding the station’s considerable distance from the harbor. The work focuses on descriptions of actions in the air and on the ground at the deepest practical, personal, and tactical level, from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Such a synthesis is possible only by pursuing every conceivable source of American documents, reminiscences, interviews, and photographs. Similarly, the authors sought out Japanese accounts and photography from the attacks, many appearing in print for the first time. Information from the Japanese air group and aircraft carrier action reports has never before been used. On the American side, the authors also have researched the Official Military Personnel Files at the National Personnel Records Center and National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri, extracting service photographs and details of the military careers of American officers and men. The authors are among the first historians to be allowed access to previously unused service records. The authors likewise delved into the background and personalities of key Japanese participants, and have translated and incorporated the Japanese aircrew rosters from the attack. This accumulation of data and information makes possible an intricate and highly integrated story that is unparalleled. The interwoven narratives of both sides provide a deeper understanding of the events near Kane'ohe Bay than any previous history.

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1612519253

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9781612519258

Book's by John Fox, Jr.

7 Best Short Stories by John Fox Jr.

7 Best Short Stories by John Fox Jr.

The Heart of the Hills

The Heart of the Hills

7 best short stories by John Fox Jr.

7 best short stories by John Fox Jr.

Essential Novelists - John Fox Jr.

Essential Novelists - John Fox Jr.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

The Heart of the Hills

The Heart of the Hills

Pulpit and People

Pulpit and People

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 15

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 15

Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage

Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage

The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed.

The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

Movie-Made Appalachia

Movie-Made Appalachia

No One Avoided Danger

No One Avoided Danger

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