Books with title The Cliff-Dwellers

The Cliff-Dwellers was the first American realist novel to use the rapidly developing city of Chicago as its setting. Henry Blake Fuller’s depiction of social climbing and human depravity among the “cliff-dwelling” residents and workers in the new Chicago skyscrapers shocked readers of the time, and influenced many American writers that followed. With its frenetic pace and many interrelated stories, it remains a compelling document of Chicago’s social history, as well as a searing indictment of modern American life at the close of the nineteenth century. The extensive appendices to this edition include Fuller’s literary criticism and his correspondence about the novel, reviews, and visual and historical materials on turn-of-the-century Chicago and literary realism.

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Includes a bonus Dwellers Short Story (Anna's Story) and a sneak peek at David Estes' follow up YA dystopian series, Fire Country! With those she's closest to dying around her, Adele embarks on a secret mission to the Sun Realm to assassinate the President. Along the way she'll uncover secrets about her relationship with Tristan that she might not be ready to face. Tristan has a secret, too, one that's been eating him up inside ever since he met Adele. Will he reveal all, and risk the loss of friendship and love at a time when he needs it the most? At the same time, Adele's mother, General Rose, must lead her soldiers into battle to face the sun dweller army in the hopes of holding them off until Adele can complete her mission. Can she outlast the strength of President Nailin's elite fighting force? There's only one truth in their world: someone must die.

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Here is the kind of outdoor book seldom met with. Albert Bigelow Paine is the author, and 'The Tent Dwellers" is as "delicious" as rare old wine. Not in seasons has a book appeared that contains so much of good-humor, spice, philosophy, and royal good-fellowship. On account of its treatment it will be of as much interest to the man or woman who has never experienced "camping out," and never expects to, as it will to the old-timer at the sport. "This is pure, rollicking fun from cover to cover. The narrator is a greenhorn who sees the humorous side of everything, while 'Eddie,' serious in his concealment behind his big glasses and woods-grown whiskers, innocently provides fun for every occasion. In December, they plan a fishing trip into the back woods of Nova Scotia; for the next four months they collect books and catalogues and outfits; in April Eddie goes on ahead, to be sure everything is made ready; in June they start out, loaded down with paraphernalia of every description. They canoe and camp and fish and experience the usual mishaps that beset the trail of voyagers - only these are described in a way no one can resist." -Forest and Stream "This is that rarest of things, a book of out-door life written simply, swiftly, and honestly. It is the story of a three weeks' fishing trip in Nova Scotia, and Mr. Paine is to be congratulated on having got away from the time-honored formula for all books of this kind; namely, that there shall be immense preparations for the joys of open-air life, followed by the sad realities of wet feet, a cold in the head, washing dishes, and catching very little fish; that there shall be an unlucky and addle headed member of the party whose adventures keep all his companions in good humor; and that little by little there shall steal into the heart of the disgruntled city-dwellers the knowledge and love of the silence and mystery of the woods, the feeling of kinship with nature, etc....To have made so fascinating an account of some weeks of quiet fishing, canoeing, and camping in the rain, is an achievement." -The Nation "Here is a book that really succeeds in reproducing the humors of camp life. It is the story of a trout-fishing vacation in Nova Scotia, and there is some good fishing philosophy in it as well and many a genuine, out-and-out laugh." -Country Life in America