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An Honorable Estate

My Time in the Working Press

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

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An Honorable Estate

My Time in the Working Press

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

Rubin, a Charleston native, reflects on his years working for newspapers around the South before settling on a teaching career.

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0807127329

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9780807127322

Surfaces of a Diamond

A Novel

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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Surfaces of a Diamond

A Novel

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

Fictional character Omar Kohn recalls his fifteenth summer. Story set in Charleston, S.C., in the late 1930s.

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0807129682

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9780807129685

The Heat of the Sun

A Novel

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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With perfect pitch and an unerring eye for detail, Rubin transports readers to Charleston, South Carolina, 1940, in a riveting tale of romance and mystery. When a rookie newspaper reporter comes to Charleston to be near his fiance, he discovers a shocking truth about her past and her father's sordid business deals.

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1563522330

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9781563522338

The Summer the Archduke Died

Essays on Wars and Warriors

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

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The Summer the Archduke Died

Essays on Wars and Warriors

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

Writer and literary scholar Rubin turns his thoughts to World War I and its aftermath, a subject of lifelong fascination for him. Topics range from tactics used at the naval battle of Jutland, to critiques of revisionist histories of Winston Churchill, to the war's impact on literature"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826266649

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9780826266644

The Wary Fugitives

Four Poets

By: Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

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The Wary Fugitives

Four Poets

By: Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren—each began his career as one of the coterie of southern poets centered at Vanderbilt University who attracted national attention with their publication of The Fugitive magazine in the early 1920s and the celebrated essays in I’ll Take My Stand. Collectively known as the Fugitives (or Agrarians as they were later called) they became ardent and influential participants in the regionalist-proletarian literary controversies of the Depression decades. Each of the four poets was personally concerned with the connection between their creative work and the social realities around them. In The Wary Fugitives Louis Rubin masterfully explores and illustrates the relationships between their poetry, novels, and literary criticism, and their work as social critics. He conducts, in the process, a revealing and provocative inquiry into the connection between American history and the twentieth-century South.

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080710454X

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9780807104545

Small Craft Advisory

A Book about the Building of a Boat

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

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A Book about the Building of a Boat

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

The author explores his obsession with boats, and describes his years of often hilarious boating adventures

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0871135086

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9780871135087

The Golden Weather

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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The Golden Weather

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

Louis D. Rubin's first novel paints in golden light the spring and summer of a boy's thirteenth year in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1936. Rubin catches not only the passage from childhood to adolescence - and its attendant woes and triumphs - but also the streets, sounds, sights, and people of his native city in an era now past but made luminous in the language of time revisited. During the long, hot summer of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter, Omar Kohn experiences his first love, builds a boat, learns how not to write poetry, and begins to see the flaws in his boyhood heroes. Along his journey to summer's end we meet vivid characters: the Marvelous Ringgold, streetcar motorist extraordinaire; Omar's mischievous best friend, Billy Cartwright; the rabbi and Omar's fellow pupils at Sabbath School; the black maid and yardman, Viola and Dominique; Dr. Horatio Chisholm, poet and extoller of local glories and pieties; and aged ex-ferryboat captain Major William Izard Frampton, C.S.A., whose wartime exploits don't quite match up with documented history. There is also Helen, from Philadelphia, in whose company Omar learns to question various assumptions about his world.

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080712009X

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9780807120095

The Summer the Archduke Died

Essays on Wars and Warriors

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

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Essays on Wars and Warriors

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Surfaces of a Diamond

A Novel

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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A Novel

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Fictional character Omar Kohn recalls his fifteenth summer. Story set in Charleston, S.C., in the late 1930s.

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0807129682

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Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog

On Writers and Writing

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

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Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog

On Writers and Writing

By: Louis Decimus Rubin

Examines the problems facing the American literary scene, including creative writing programs, sports writing, Southern literature, publishing, and poetry, with references to William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, James Joyce, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. S. Eliot, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Herman Melville, and Ernest Hemingway"--Provided by publisher.

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0826265049

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9780826265043

A Memory of Trains

The Boll Weevil and Others

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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A Memory of Trains

The Boll Weevil and Others

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

The author, a literary critic and historian, uses over 100 of his own photographs to recall his life-long love of trains.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003382X

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9781570033827

Southern Writers

A New Biographical Dictionary

By: Joseph M. Flora,Amber Vogel

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Southern Writers

A New Biographical Dictionary

By: Joseph M. Flora,Amber Vogel

Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial times to the present.The volume is, in part, a companion to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., ed.), a work that has become a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the literature of the South. With its wealth of essential biographical information on the region's writers, both major and minor, this new guide will take its place alongside that earlier volume as an invaluable aid to the study of southern writing. Especially useful will be complete listings of the first printings of the books by each writer provided after the respective summaries.Included as contributors of the individual biographical summaries are most of the better-known scholars of southern literature, plus a number of promising young scholars. The editors, each of whom is an outstanding scholar in southern literary studies, are:

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080710390X

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9780807103906

The Heat of the Sun

A Novel

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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A Novel

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1563522330

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My Father's People

A Family of Southern Jews

By: Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

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My Father's People

A Family of Southern Jews

By: Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

Louis Rubin's people on his father's side were odd, inscrutable, and remarkable. In contrast to his mother's family, who were "normal, good people devoid of mystery," the ways of the Rubins both puzzled and attracted him. In My Father's People, Rubin tells "as best I can about them all -- my father, his three brothers, and his three sisters." It is a searching, sensitive story of Americanization, assimilation, and the displacement -- and survival -- of a religious heritage. Born between 1888 and 1902 in Charleston, South Carolina, their father an immigrant Russian Jew, the Rubin children suffered dire poverty, humiliation, and separation when their parents became incapacitated. Three of the boys were sent to the Hebrew Orphans' Home in Atlanta for several years. Yet the sons all managed to build long, productive, even notable lives and livelihoods, becoming, variously, a newspaper editor, Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, businessman, and -- in the case of Rubin's father -- a far-famed long-range weather prognosticator. Private people, reticent to discuss their painful early years, the Rubins were not easily knowable. Still, the author draws a strikingly candid portrait of each, using memories, stories, keen insight, and broad empathy -- fascinating character studies full of individual propensities and peculiarities that together reveal the wider family resemblance. Although the Rubins were mostly nonreligious as adults, their family's rabbinical tradition and their experience as southern Jews were key to their vocational fervor and the lives they made for themselves. "They were Americans, and they were Jews," Rubin concludes. "These were enough." Told with Louis Rubin's signature eloquence and wit, My Father's People is a testimony to the courage of immigrant southern Jews and their gifts to their chosen country.

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0807128082

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The Golden Weather

By: Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)

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An Honorable Estate

An Honorable Estate

Surfaces of a Diamond

Surfaces of a Diamond

The Heat of the Sun

The Heat of the Sun

The Summer the Archduke Died

The Summer the Archduke Died

The Wary Fugitives

The Wary Fugitives

Small Craft Advisory

Small Craft Advisory

The Golden Weather

The Golden Weather

The Summer the Archduke Died

The Summer the Archduke Died

Surfaces of a Diamond

Surfaces of a Diamond

Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog

Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog

A Memory of Trains

A Memory of Trains

Southern Writers

Southern Writers

The Heat of the Sun

The Heat of the Sun

My Father's People

My Father's People

The Golden Weather

The Golden Weather

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