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Albion Winegar Tourgee
Albion Winegar Tourgée , 1838-1905, American author and lawyer, b. Williamsfield, Ohio, studied at the Univ. of Rochester. After serving in the Union army he was for a few years a carpetbagger lawyer and political judge in North Carolina. Of his several novels, the best known are A Fool's... Read more |
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Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke c.1703-1783, Irish author. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he studied law in London before returning to Ireland permanently. In 1735 he published his long philosophical poem, Universal Beauty. His discursive novel, The Fool of Quality (5 vol., 1767-70), which was inspired by... Read more |
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Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Karl Adolph Gjellerup Danish–born author Karl Gjellerup (1857–1919) was a freethinker who explored different truths through his poetry and novels, covering theology, atheism, and Darwin's doctrine of evolution, as well as Buddhism and reincarnation. His writing was not always the... Read more |
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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan 1951– Author, educator Influence of Early Years Promoted First Novel “Looking for Mr. Right” Sued by Former Lover Determination Got Anthology Published Third Novel Raised Contemporary Issues Selected writings Sources “Terry McMillan has the power to be an... Read more |
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Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant , 1457-1521, German humanist and moralist. He taught law at the Univ. of Basel and in 1503 became town clerk of Strasbourg. His verse allegory Das Narrenschiff [ship of fools] (1494) became world famous. Illustrated with woodcuts, it went through six editions in Brant's lifetime... Read more |
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Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980, American author, b. Indian Creek, Tex. Although she published infrequently, she is regarded as a master of the short story. Her first book of stories, Flowering Judas (1930), received immediate recognition and critical acclaim. It was followed by Pale Horse, Pale... Read more |
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Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland , 1733-1813, German poet and novelist. His style, typical of the German rococo, is elegant, satiric, and often playful. He borrowed subjects from classical antiquity as well as from fairy tales. A political novel, Der goldene Spiegel [the golden mirror] (1772), won him... Read more |
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James Welch (American writer)
WELCH, James Nationality: American. Born: Browning, Montana, in 1940. Education: The University of Montana, Missoula, B.A.; Northern Montana College, Harve. Awards: National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1969; Los Angeles Times prize, for Fools Crow, 1987. Address: Roseacres Farm, Route... Read more |
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William Trevor
William Trevor 1928-, Anglo-Irish fiction writer, b. Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, as William Trevor Cox, grad. Trinity College, Dublin (1950). He settled in London in 1960 and five years later moved to Devon. Trevor's novels are usually set in England or Ireland, and he has often written of the troubles... Read more |
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temple
Temple, family name of characters in the Leather‐Stocking Tales and other novels of Cooper.... Read more |
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The Fool's Progress: an Honest Novel.
The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, by Edward Abbey Henry...everything from laws to jobs. Fool's Progress is both hilarious...society as court jesters and fools had to their lords and...a wandering ... |
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BOOK REPORT
...worth it. His episodic new novel, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (Holt), is winning critical...have stuck. In a half-dozen novels and an equal number of nonfiction...compose one good, very long ... |
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A bleak fictional view of revolution
...whose name it is fought. In his novel, A Casual Brutality (Ivy Books...grounds of a county jail. The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, by Edward Abbey (Avon...Ballantine, $4.95), lyric novel following the sometimes comic... |
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NEW ENGLAND SKI FOLKS.(News)
...Moment: Learning to ski a trail that has a triple fall line If you could have one book it would be: `The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel" by Edward Abbey What do you admire most in skiers: Their madness What do you despise most in skiers... |
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AUTHORS APPEARING EDWARD ABBEY
...Wrench Gang," a comic novel about four environmentalists...recent work is "The Fool's Progress" (Holt, $19.95), subtitled "An Honest Novel"; it is also a picaresque...publication of her first novel, "The Beans of Egypt... |
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Fool's Gold
...chronicling a rake's progress through 17th-century...darkest moments. Her new novel travels to the South...Lilian, to find "an honest and prosperous life...the colour" of the novel's title, spark an...device to forward the novel's ... |
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COMPETING WITH HISTORY IS PAR FOR WOODS'S COURSE
...Please, Lord, don't let me make a fool of myself before all these people...you look at Tiger's career as a novel in progress, the overwhelming urge is to turn...the story comes out? Come on. Be honest. Even if you're just an average... |
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Reeling in the dark
...MOVING and puzzling novel. One finds oneself...there he writes a novel entitled The Tenant...narrator's rake's progress and compels him...You may be able to fool others that this...but, if you are honest, you won't fool ... |
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Book reviews: Youth: Alien in a cold capital
...but makes little progress as either. He takes...his author. The novel, however, is more...of development. Novels are neither better...foolish, but no fool. "In his article...for misery, dull, honest misery. If this...Hard to say. The ... |
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A Broken Home; A boom town finds itself at the mercy of nature.
...Raban's second novel, is both a comedy...vessel whose immense progress through the Juan...out like the lone honest burgher in a line...is this ingenious novel's leitmotif. Again...indeed, and a fool's paradise in sharp...threaten Seattle. ... |
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