The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Hemingway's Spain
Imagining the Spanish World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain “the country that I loved more than any other except my own,” and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from each decade of his career: The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.”...
The Lousy Racket
Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The business of making an American literary icon
The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway’s working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical...
Why Cows Need Names
And More Secrets of Amish Farms
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
An inspiring glimpse into the struggles of a young Amish farm family
Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed.
Why...
Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is...
Sacred Land
Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern, Modernisms, and the Sacramental Vision of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and motivating cultural experience: the encompassing transformation of rural and urban Midwestern life from...
The Admirable Radical
Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His tireless campaign for social justice prompted his former Spelman College student, Alice Walker, to remember...
A Family and Nation under Fire
The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with...
War + Ink
New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Casts fresh light on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures
Ernest Hemingway’s early adulthood (1917–1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular...
The Way It Was
Sex, Surgery, Treasure, & Travel, 1907-1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
George (“Barney”) Crile considers himself a lucky man, lucky to be born when and where he was, lucky to have had the parents he did, lucky in his career, and most of all, lucky in his wives. Barney Crile’s parents were of Cleveland’s elite during that city’s self-described golden age. His...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by William Chrislock
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An engaging tale of life as an immigrant in Cleveland during the post–Civil War era and early twentieth century
The Story of My Life, originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, is the engaging and informative autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman...
by W. A. Senior
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant examines Donaldson's first three novels in an attempt to define their place in the fantasy canon. The book begins with an extensive introduction to the fantasy genre in which W.A. Senior eloquently defends fantasy against charges of being mere escapism,...
Moods of the Ohio Moons
An Outdoorsman's Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. These columns are informed by a rural background and field notes from more than sixty years of outdoor experience. In Gilfillan’s words, “Observation...