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Hardback. Condition: Good. At the turn of the century, before the advent of movies and radio, the most widely read family magazine in America was The Youth's Companion, and C. A. Stephens was indisputably its most popular writer. Over a period of 55 years, he contributed more than 1,500 stories, but the stories that gained the most fervent readership were fictionalized versions of his recollections of growing up on a small farm in New England.Stephens's stories about six orphans who found a home after the Civil War with their grandparents in rural Maine won critical acclaim both when they were first published one hundred years ago and later when a collection was published as Stories from the Old Squire's Farm. Some of the very best stories of New England life and character that have ever been written, said the Hartford Daily Courant.In this new collection of 28 stories, a bank gets robbed, someone steals the Old Squire's new potato hybrid, wolves trap the children overnight, and the Old Squire's mend-all tonic finds a larger, happier audience when a salesman livens up the mixture.Although The Youth's Companion ceased publication in 1929, people still write to the librarian in Norway, Maine, or stop by on their summer trips to inquire of the whereabouts of the Old Squire's farm and whatever happened to Addison and Theodora. Such is the enduring power these simple tales have for America's readers.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. At the turn of the century, before the advent of movies and radio, the most widely read family magazine in America was The Youth's Companion, and C. A. Stephens was indisputably its most popular writer. Over a period of 55 years, he contributed more than 1,500 stories, but the stories that gained the most fervent readership were fictionalized versions of his recollections of growing up on a small farm in New England.Stephens's stories about six orphans who found a home after the Civil War with their grandparents in rural Maine won critical acclaim both when they were first published one hundred years ago and later when a collection was published as Stories from the Old Squire's Farm. Some of the very best stories of New England life and character that have ever been written, said the Hartford Daily Courant.In this new collection of 28 stories, a bank gets robbed, someone steals the Old Squire's new potato hybrid, wolves trap the children overnight, and the Old Squire's mend-all tonic finds a larger, happier audience when a salesman livens up the mixture.Although The Youth's Companion ceased publication in 1929, people still write to the librarian in Norway, Maine, or stop by on their summer trips to inquire of the whereabouts of the Old Squire's farm and whatever happened to Addison and Theodora. Such is the enduring power these simple tales have for America's readers.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine hardcover with Near Fine dust jacket; tight binding, jacket clean and sharp. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 377pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rutledge Hill Press, Published 1996. Hardcover, 377 pp.; 20 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Quarter-bound in brown cloth with speckled tan paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, gold endpapers; mild shelf wear and edgewear to covers, binding tight. Thin black remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, price intact. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Collects 28 stories by C. A. Stephens, the most popular contributor to the family magazine The Youth's Companion, where across some 55 years he published more than 1,500 stories. Drawn from his fictionalized recollections of boyhood among six orphans who found a home after the Civil War with their grandparents on a farm in rural Maine, the tales gather around the Old Squire's farm, among them a bank robbery, a stolen potato hybrid, children trapped overnight by wolves, and the Old Squire's mend-all tonic. Compiled and edited by Charles G. Waugh and Larry Glatz.…

Condition: Near Fine/VG+ (see notes). 1st THUS. 12mo. 377pp. Bit of shelfwear to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter-bound in brown cloth on beige boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; gold endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. This story collection contains: When the Old Squire Broke the Punch Bowl; When the Savings Bank Was Robbed; The Old Squire's Rozzum; Single Combat; At the Taking of Louisbourg; At the Maple Tree Camp; Uncle Dresser's Money; The Doctor and the Black Squirrel; At the Hay Meadows; Bear Tone; The Queen Amethyst Quarrel; The Bees of Gehenna; The Old Squire's Eden; Cutting Cordwood; A January Thaw; The Old Cider Mill; A Night on the Great Rock; Bethesda; The Old Squire's Clocks; The Old Squire's Tonic; The Unpardonable Sin; The Great Potato Picnic; Sailing on the Ice; A Strange Legacy; At Anticosti; Wintering in a Dugout; What the Man in the Moon Saw; and The Old Squire's Book. Size: 8vo. Book.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. African American Vernacular English in Contemporary Music: A linguistic analysis. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Remainder mark on bottom page foredge; otherwise both dustcover and hardboards new; 6 X 1.5 X 8 inches; 377 pages.

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hard cover. Condition: Fair in fine dust jacket. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 377 p. Audience: General/trade.

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Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 246 Seiten; Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 545.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 3,0, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Usage of the N-Word in Huck Finn. I will first examine how the N-Word was used in general in former times, then how Mark Twain used it in Huck Finn and finally why he employed it so often.Before I begin I would like to say that I am going to use the word nigger a lot of times in this paper. I do not want to insult anybody, but I have to mention it sometimes as I write about the term. I also dissociate myself from some quotations you will read on the following pages, where the word is used in an offensive way.Former Usage of the N-Word and that in Huck FinnAt the beginning, I would like to quote Thomas Jefferson, who claimed that '.their [the blacks'] existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection' . At the time of 'the Enlightenment', a human being was characterized by reason. This was underlined by the philosopher Descartes who stated 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think therefore I am'). In the quote by Jefferson, the black community is considered as a people who does not think, but rather feels. It implies that blacks lack the most important feature of a human being, which is reason, and therefore cannot be considered as 'human'. Before the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, this argument was a very common legitimation for slavery and for the use of nigger to refer to African Americans.The term itself was, for instance, used to distinguish a white and a black person with the same first name. When you say 'Nigger Jim' it is evident that you mean a black slave, and not the white Jim. In addition to that, blacks were never addressed by 'Mr.' or 'Mrs.', but rather by their first name or by 'Auntie' or 'Uncle'. Another interesting point is the fact that whites who supported blacks during the Civil Rights Movement were referred to as niggerlovers. In this example you can see that even whites were discriminated by simply having contact or feeling sympathy with African Americans. Now I would like to focus on the novel Huck Finn by Mark Twain. As it was written before the abolition of slavery, this book might be helpful to examine how the N-Word was used. Beside the question of 'how', the 'why' also plays an important role. What were Twain's reasons for using this insult Was he a racist as many people claim In Huck Finn, the N-Word can first be read in chapter 2: 'Miss Watson's big nigger' , by which her slave Jim is meant. We can assume that in this case, nigger is used as a synonym for slave.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, language: English, abstract: This thesis investigates the use of African American Vernacular English in contemporary music. AAVE is an ethnic variety spoken by many, though not all, African Americans living in the United States. This dialect does not have one name only, but is also called 'Negro dialect,' 'Nonstandard Negro English,' 'Black English,' 'Black Street Speech,' 'Black Vernacular English,' 'Black Vernacular English,' or 'African American English.' I would like to add that some terms are historical. It is crucial to know that researchers call it differently because to a large degree it depends on the time he/she conducted research on this topic. Today, the dialect is either called African American Vernacular English or African American English.The words 'contemporary music' in the title refer to Hip Hop. This music genre was chosen to be investigated because out of the music genres African Americans are involved in, it is the one that generates most of the sales and is the most popular one. The rappers which are going to be analyzed in this thesis use many of the features of the African American vernacular. Given the huge number of AAVE features, only one of them will be analyzed, the copula verb to be, which in the following will only be called 'the copula.' According to Wolfram, the copula is 'one of the most often described structures of AAVE' (2008: 517). For this reason, the copula might be an interesting feature to look at. When researchers examined AAVE in the past, they did not necessarily take music as a source of data, but rather spoken language. One has to know that language in music is a different genre of language use, which differs from the usual use of the language. Music can be considered an artistic expression, but not 'real' speech. Nevertheless, as music has always been and presumably will always be a big part in African American culture, it should be possible to recognize features of AAVE and use music as a reliable source. In the analysis conducted in this thesis, the use of the copula will be examined by having a look at the lyrics of three famous rappers from the US: Tupac, Jay-Z and 50 Cent. Even though the three of them can be assigned to 'gangsta rap', they all differ from each other. They all started their careers in different decades, come from different cities and have a different style of rapping. What they have in common is that they are African American rappers from a lower class who grew up in poverty and have become successful musicians.…

Softcover. 25 x 18 cm. Originalbroschur. Der fehlende Rückenbezug wurde durch säurehaltiges Filmoplast (Tesa) ersetzt, der lädierte Hinterdeckel liegt lose bei. 158 Seiten mit Frontispiz, illustriertem Kalendarium, zahlreichen weiteren einfarbigen Illustrationen und einigen s/w Fotos sowie vielen Anzeigen örtlicher Unternehmen. Titelblatt und die letzten etwa 10 (Anzeigen)Seiten fehlen, oberes Viertel der ersten Kalenderseite fehlt, vorn ist die Klammerung angerostet. Älterer Vorbesitzerstempel im vorderen Innendeckel. Ansonsten innen sauber und noch ganz gut erhalten. Mit einem Verzeichnis der katholischen Pfarreien, Geistlichen, religiösen Genossenschaften, Schulen und Lehrer in der Grafschaft Glatz / einige Texte in Mundart -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Genießen Sie den goldenen Herbst! Machen Sie es sich gemütlich , bei uns finden Sie sicher die passende Lektüre! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K04105-438776.…

Softcover. 25 x 18 cm. Originalbroschur, der lädierte Umschlag wurde foliert. 124 Seiten mit Frontispiz, illustriertem Kalendarium, zahlreichen weiteren einfarbigen Illustrationen und einigen s/w Fotos sowie vielen Anzeigen örtlicher Unternehmen. Älterer Vorbesitzerstempel nebst Kugelschreiber-Signatur im vorderen Innendeckel, die ersten Blätter sind etwas randlädiert. Befriedigender Zustand. einige Texte in Mundart -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Genießen Sie den goldenen Herbst! Machen Sie es sich gemütlich , bei uns finden Sie sicher die passende Lektüre! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K01290-438778.…