California Classics: Essays on the Books and Their Writers
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- Synopsis
- Essays by 31 writers, from California, about California, or who at least passed through California and the books they wrote that have had some lasting impact on how California is viewed; from its discovery to the 1970s (when the book was published). Herbert E. Bolton, ANZA'S CALIFORNIA EXPEDITIONS; Walter Nordhoff, THE JOURNEY OF THE FLAME; William L. Manly, DEATH VALLEY IN '49; Mary Austin, THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN; George Wharton James, THE WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT; Louisa Smith Clapp, THE SHIRLEY LETTERS; Bret Harte, THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP; Mark Twain, ROUGHING IT; Gertrude Atherton, THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES; William H. Brewer, UP AND DOWN CALIFORNIA IN 1860-64; Clarence King, MOUNTAINEERING IN THE SIERRA NEVADA; John Muir, THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA; Richard Henry Dana, Jr., TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST; Robert Louis Stevenson, THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS; Frank Norris, MCTEAGUE; Jack London, MARTIN EDEN; Smeaton Chase, CALIFORNIA COAST TRAILS; Robinson Jeffers, GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS; John Steinbeck TO A GOD UNKNOWN; Charis and Edward Weston, CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; Idwal Jones, THE VINEYARD; Robert Glass Cleland, THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS; Helen Hunt Jackson, RAMONA; Horace Bell, REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER; Charles E Lummis, LAND OF SUNSHINE; Lincoln Steffens, BOY ON HORSEBACK; Upton Sinclair, OIL!; Harry Leon Wilson, MERTON OF THE MOVIES; Nathanael West, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST; Aldous Huxley, AFTER MANY A SUMMER; Raymond Chandler FAREWELL, MY LOVELY.
- Copyright:
- 1971
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 393 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780378077811
- Publisher:
- Ward Ritchie Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/27/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Lawrence Clark Powell
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Dr. Kenneth Cross
- Proofread By:
- Michael Sestak
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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