What story was written about Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer?
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David Hackett Fischer David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends ("Albion's Seed," "The Great Wave") to narrative histories of significant events ("Paul Revere's Ride," "Washington's Crossing") to explorations of historiography ("Historians' Fallacies", in which he coined the term Historian's fallacy).
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Albion's Seed Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the modern United States. Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture." Fischer describes "Albion's Seed" as a modified Teutonic germ theory within the framework of the Frontier Thesis and the migration model.
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Feathertop "Feathertop" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852. The moral tale uses a metaphoric scarecrow named Feathertop and its adventure to offer the reader a conclusive lesson about human character. It has since been used and adapted in several other media forms, such as opera and theatre.
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The Gold-Bug "The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843. The plot follows William Legrand who was bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears that Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend, an unnamed narrator, who agrees to visit his old friend. Legrand pulls the other two into an adventure after deciphering a secret message that will lead to a buried treasure.
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The Days of Perky Pat "The Days of Perky Pat" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1963 in "Amazing" magazine. Elements of the story would be incorporated into Dick's 1965 novel, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".
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A Party Down at the Square "A Party Down at the Square" is a short story by the American writer Ralph Ellison, first published in 1997, three years after the author's death. It is a story of a Deep South lynching as perceived by a white boy from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Odour of Chrysanthemums "Odour of Chrysanthemums" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. It was written in the autumn of 1909 and after revision, was published in "The English Review" in July 1911. Lawrence later included this tale in his collection entitled "The Prussian Officer and Other Stories", which Duckworth, his London publisher, bought out on 26 November 1914. An American edition was produced by B W Huebsch in 1916. Lawrence later adapted the story into a play, "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd".
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The Artist of the Beautiful "The Artist of the Beautiful" is a short story by the American writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story was first published in 1844 and was included two years later in the collection "Mosses from an Old Manse" published by Wiley & Putnam.
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Two or Three Graces Two or Three Graces (1926), Aldous Huxley's fourth collection of short fiction, consists of the following four short pieces:
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The Man Without a Country "The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in "The Atlantic" in December 1863. It is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea without so much as a word of news about the United States. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War and was meant to promote the Union cause.
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The Four Prentices of London The Four Prentices of London is an Elizabethan play by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Heywood, thought to have originated "c". 1592.
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William Wilson (short story) "William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It also appeared in the 1840 collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque", and has been adapted several times.
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The Lochmaben Harper "The Lochmaben Harper" or "The Blind Harper" is a traditional British Folk ballad (Child # 192, Roud # 85) and is one of the ballads collected by Francis Child in "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (1882–1898).
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David Henry Wilson David Henry Wilson (1937, London - ) is an English writer. As an author he is best known for his children's stories such as the "Jeremy James" series. Wilson has also had a number of plays produced in the United Kingdom, both for children and adults. He is also the author of "The Coachman Rat" (1989), a satirical novel based on the Cinderella story.
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The Sea Raiders "The Sea Raiders" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896 in "The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement". It was included in "The Plattner Story and Others", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was included in "The Country of the Blind and Other Stories", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1911.
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Allal "Allal" is a short story written by American writer, composer, and world traveler Paul Bowles. This story was first published in "Rolling Stone" on January 27, 1977, and since has been included in many compilation short story books. "Allal" is about an outcast boy and his fascination with a pet snake that eventually leads to his very unusual death. This short story contains many Gothic Fiction themes such as loneliness, human attraction to one's own atavistic natures and the uncanny.
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Hop-Frog "Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.
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A Tangled Tale A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in "The Monthly Packet" magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly – giving their names – was not always well received (see Knot VI below).
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Transience (short story) "Transience" is a short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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Main-Travelled Roads Main-Travelled Roads is a collection of short stories by the American author Hamlin Garland. First published in 1891, the stories are set in what the author refers to as the "Middle Border," the northwestern prairie states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. In the book's eleven stories, Garland portrays the hardships of agrarian life, deconstructing the conventional myth of the American prairie while highlighting the economic and social conditions that characterized agricultural communities in the rural Midwest.
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Freeborn Man of the Traveling People Freeborn Man of the Traveling People is a folk ballad,
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David McCheyne Newell David McCheyne Newell (23 March 1898 – 1986) was an American journalist, novelist, and children's writer perhaps most famous for his books regarding early twentieth century rural life in western central Florida. In "If Nothin' Don't Happen" and "The Trouble of It Is" the fictional narrator, Billy Driggers, tells true-to-life stories about the people of Florida's Gulf Hammock (the coastal land between Cedar Key and the Withlacoochee River) and the surrounding environs during the interwar years. Earlier writings included "The Fishing and Hunting Answer Book", illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, a children's book titled "American Animals", "Cougars and Cowboys" (New York. The Century Co., 1927) and numerous short stories and articles.