Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This Composite Voice is the first in depth examination of the extensive history and particularly vexed nature of this lifelong poetic relationship. It draws on little-known biographical material, uncollected poems, manuscript variants, and annotations found in Merrill's copies of Yeats poems, essays, and A Vision , as well as a close examination of Merrill's better-known writing, to establ...

Hemingway said American fiction begins and ends with Huck Finn, and he's right. Twain's most famous novel is a tour de force. He delves into issues such as racism, friendship, war, religion, and freedom with an uncanny combination of lightheartedness and gravitas.

The first biography of the vagabond, hard-boiled writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring TwentiesThe son of an Irish ditch-digger, Jim Tully (1886–1947) left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries...

A picture of life in the boxing ring“Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”—from the ForewordWhen The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer praised Jim Tully’s gritty boxing novel for its authenticity—a hard-earned attribute. Twenty-eight years before the appearance of The Bruiser, Tully began a car...

A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories are, readers accept them as nonfiction. Tully makes the improbable seem true.”—from the foreword by Harvey PekarJim Tully was an American writer who enjoy...

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Economics, Prague (Faculty of Management), course: Managerial Systems, language: English, abstract: The transition from centrally planned economy to market economy in Czech Republic needed the adaptation of global system changes that turned out to be more complicated and long term than expected before. The basic issue was the liberalization of prices...

Tully’s breakthrough novel about life on the roadJim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass—espec...

Funny, Clever, and Full of Mark Twain’s WitThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain is a wonderfully entertaining short story filled with dry humour, colorful characters, and the kind of storytelling that made Twain famous.The tale is simple but extremely effective, with a playful narrative voice and a memorable sense of exaggeration and absurdity. It is a great example of Twain’s early humour and his talent for capturing the r...

Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter.”—from the foreword by John SaylesJim Tully was an Ameri...

Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one who has read it will ever forget.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

"When came the famine in stock-cars on the Montana Central, and the Flying U herd had grazed for two days within five miles of Dry Lake, waiting for the promised train of empties, Chip Bennett, lately promoted foreman, felt that he had trouble a-plenty." The Happy Family return for more adventures at the Flying U.

In Shanty Irish, Jim Tully weaves the bittersweet, autobiographical tale of his familys journey from Ireland to America, chronicling their struggles, defeats and little victories. This unjustly forgotten American novel is one of greatest books of the Irish diaspora. This book will tug at your heart strings and make you laugh out loud.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Heming...