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Ann Petry

Ann Petry

Hilary Holladay

Offers a broad study of the life and writings of Ann Petry, the African-American fiction writer born in 1908.
Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays

Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays

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[An] African American writer who has employed techniques from oral tradition to control and liberate the structure of a story, its organization of events, and presentation of character is Ann Petry. "Solo on the Drums" [1947] lacks chronological ...
Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Ann Petry

Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again ...
Revising the blueprint

Revising the blueprint

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In Ann Petry s Short Fiction: Critical Essays, edited by Hazel Arnet Ervin and Hilary Holladay. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. "A Visit with Ann Petry." Interview. College of Pharmacy. University of Illinois. Chicago. 16 May 1984. In The Critical ...
The Narrows: A Novel

The Narrows: A Novel

Ann Petry

In a fascinating introduction to this new edition, Keith Clark discusses the prescience with which Petry chronicled the ways tabloid journalism, smug elitism, and mob mentality distort and demonize African American men.
Race, Racism and Violence in Ann Petry’s 'The Witness': From ...

Race, Racism and Violence in Ann Petry’s 'The Witness': From ...

Jeannette Nedoma

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, , course: African American Women Writers, language: English, abstract: To introduce my term paper “Race and Violence in Ann Petry’s The Witness” ...
Race, Racism and Violence in Ann Petry's 'the Witness'

Race, Racism and Violence in Ann Petry's 'the Witness'

Jeannette Nedoma

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, course: African American Women Writers, language: English, abstract: To introduce my term paper "Race and Violence in Ann Petry's The Witness" I want ...
An Analysis of "The Street" by Ann Petry

An Analysis of "The Street" by Ann Petry

Sirinya Pakditawan

The setting of this novel is Harlem in the 1940s. The story deals with the life and trials of the Mulatto woman Lutie Johnson and her struggle to find a place in this environment for herself and her son.
The Street

The Street

Ann Petry

THE STREET tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.
Tituba of Salem Village

Tituba of Salem Village

Ann Petry

When the reverend’s suggestible young daughter, Betsey, starts having fits, the townsfolk declare it to be the devil’s work. Suspicion falls on Tituba, who can read fortunes and spin flax into thread so fine it seems like magic.
Nineteenth-Century Emigration from Kreis Simmern ...

Nineteenth-Century Emigration from Kreis Simmern ...

Clifford Neal Smith

WERB, Nikolaus, b 19 Jul 1851, no profession; e 1866 4. MARX, Johann Adam; e 1869 5. KLINGELS, Johann Jakob, b 12 Mar 1859; e 1875 6. PETRY, Adam, b 5 Dec 1860, baker; e 1876 7. PETRY, Johann, b 31 Mar 1856; e 1876 8.
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Ann Petry

A New York Times Outstanding Book for young adult readers, this biography of the famed Underground Railroad abolitionist is a lesson in valor and justice. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman knew the thirst for freedom.
Ann: (1833-1897)

Ann: (1833-1897)

Ruth Vitrano Merkel

Ann's brothers were told, and they did--most of the time. This is Ann's story--the first in the series of six true stories about Adventist girls: Ann, Marilla, Grace, Ruth, Elaine, and Erin. Ann was born in 1833.
Ann M. Martin

Ann M. Martin

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1 Margot Becker R. and Ann M. Martin, Ann M. Martin: The Story of the Author of the Babysitters Club (New York: Scholastic Inc., 1993), 127. 2 Ann M. ... AnnM. Martin: LettersfromAnn, www.scholastic.com/annmartin/letters/online0301.htm;.
Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers

Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers

Ann Rule

ANN RULE PORTRAYS THEIR SHATTERING CRIMES WITHOUT PITY. In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews).
Issue: A Journal for Artists

Issue: A Journal for Artists

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... Mendelsohn James Brooks Ann Gibson Richard Bellamy Judith Wilson Vincent Smith Donna Nelson & John Mendelsohn Stephen Green Ann Tempkin Frank Lobdell Ann Gibson Blanche Grambs Susan Dorais George McNeil Ann Tempkin  ...
Leigh Ann's Civil War

Leigh Ann's Civil War

Ann Rinaldi

Leigh Ann Conners is spunky and determined.
The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science

The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science

Ann Oakley

This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley.
Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Nardi Reeder Campion

Ann's father, like most eighteenth-century fathers, considered marriage essential to his daughter's security. He insisted that she must marry, whether she wanted to or not. Ann was twenty-six years old and the revulsion against sex, which she ...
Straight from the Heart

Straight from the Heart

Ann Richards

Ann Richards' personal collection 2. Ann Richards' personal collection 3. Ann Richards' personal collection 4. John Huber 5. Ann Richards' personal collection 6. Ann Richards' personal collection 7. T. W. Powers 8. Ann Richards' personal ...
Psalms of Lament

Psalms of Lament

Ann Weems

Ann Weems. * L | --> - - - - Ann Weems Foreword by Walter Brueggemann Psalms of Lament Other Books by Ann Weems Family Faith. Psalms 9781611644487.
Ann Verdcourt: Ceramics

Ann Verdcourt: Ceramics

Ann Verdcourt

This publication features essays from curators Greg Donson and Nicola Jennings, as well as guest essays from Gregory O''Brien, Roger Blackley and Janne Land, plus an interview between Ann Verdcourt and Margaret Taylor.
Under Starry Skies

Under Starry Skies

Judy Ann Davis

Praise for Judy Ann Davis “Storyteller Judy Ann Davis weaves her awardwinning tales to make her readers laugh, maybe cry, but always able to relate to the unique characters and the dilemmas they encounter.” ~Long and ShortReviews ...
Medal of Honor: Third Edition

Medal of Honor: Third Edition

Peter Collier

On October 25, 2010, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta became the first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States’ highest military decoration, and both he and Sergeant Leroy Petry (the second inductee) rightly take ...
The Legislative Branch of the Federal Government: Purpose, ...

The Legislative Branch of the Federal Government: Purpose, ...

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Rebecca Ann Felton (b. June 10, 1835, near Decatur, Ga.—d. Jan. 24, 1930, Atlanta, Ga.) Rebecca Ann Felton (née Rebecca Ann Latimer) was a political activist, writer, and lecturer and the first woman seated in the U.S. Senate. Rebecca ...
Woman's Home Companion

Woman's Home Companion

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Gail Sinclair, New York City* What you get with the Ann Delafield Reducing Plan: O A 1 1 6-page book giving you Ann Delafield's new, easy Appetite Reducing Plan, including suggested menus and vital beauty tips. Q A 30-day supply of Ann  ...
Aggressive In-Line Skating

Aggressive In-Line Skating

Ann Weil

Ann Weil. AGGRESSIVE IN-LINE SKATING by Ann Weil inside-, AGGRESSIVE IN-LINE GEAR TRICKS AND EXTREME MOVES FAMOUS PROS XSports EDGE AGGRESSIVE IN LINE SKATING by Ann Weil Consultant: Front Cover.
The King’s Bishops: The Politics of Patronage in England and ...

The King’s Bishops: The Politics of Patronage in England and ...

E. Crosby

Essays inHonorof RayC. Petry, GeorgeH. Shriver, ed. (Durham,N.C.: Duke University, 1974),pp.119–134. Reinhard, Wolfgang, “Nepotismus. Der Funktionswandel einer päpstgeschichtlichen Konstanten,” Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 86 ...

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