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  • And One to Grow On

    Recollections of a Maine Boyhood

    by John Gould ...
    Another in John Gould's Maine series, And One to Grow On: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, originally published in 1948, is a wonderful collection of anecdotes from the author's very own boyhood in his hometown—where the mailman was a spiritualist, the harbor master rated a Navy celebration, a circus went bankrupt, and practical jokers were well loved. The maybasketing, the church suppers, the ... Read more

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  • The Imagist Poets

    by John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, James Joyce ...
    In the early 1900s a new movement in poetry began. With the new century came new thinking, a reaction to both romanticism and the more formal, structured poetry of the Victorian era. Here was poetry designed to be simple, clear and precise, rather than be adorned and encrusted with more from the lexicon than what was actually needed.The original ideas sprang from T. E Hulme and from these Ezra ... Read more

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  • Stitch in Time

    by John Gould ...
    "If there is reincarnation, I'm selfish enough to wish that next time around John Gould would come back as a writer again." —Mark Kramer in the Wall Street JournalIn these observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village, Mr. Gould addresses important matters. For example, there is the question of why there are two churches in a town of 800 souls, some of whom were atheists. It seems ... Read more

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  • The End of Me

    by John Gould ...
    56 very short stories about death from Giller Prize finalist John GouldThe End of Me is an astonishing set of sudden stories about the experience of mortality. With an ear attuned to the uncanny and the ironic, John Gould catches his characters at moments of illumination as they encounter the mystery of their finite being. A marooned astronaut bonds with a bereft cat; kids pelt a funeral ... Read more

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  • How To Camp Out

    by John M. Gould ...
    This book contains instructions for camping and walking in the wilderness.As an infantryman with the Union Army, John M. Gould marched and camped in an organized group for several years. He wrote down what he knew, and the result is a book that shows you how to camp and how to organize yourself when you go camping. ... Read more

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  • Discovering Wales: 7 Classic Books on the Charm of Welsh Territories

    Classic Travel Writing on Welsh Landscapes, Heritage, Churches, and Cultural Memory

    by S. Baring-Gould, John Hicklin, G. J. Bennett, Aymer Vallance ...
    Discovering Wales gathers seven classic works of travel, topography, and cultural observation into a richly varied portrait of Welsh territories. Moving between antiquarian inquiry, descriptive prose, regional history, and the pleasures of scenic narration, the collection records Wales as a landscape of mountains, coastlines, ruins, villages, and enduring traditions. Its standout value lies in the ... Read more

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  • Ocean Steamships

    A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances

    by John H. Gould, French Ensor Chadwick, Ridgely Hunt, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, A. E. Seaton, William H. Rideing ...
    In 'Ocean Steamships,' readers are invited to navigate the complex and enthralling world of sea travel at the height of the steamship era. This anthology effortlessly captures the myriad voices that chart the evolution of maritime travel, engineering marvels, and the societal impact of crossing oceans with steam-powered vessels. The collection examines themes of adventure, technological ... Read more

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  • Ocean Steamships

    by John H. Gould, F. E. Chadwick, William H. Rideing, A. E. Seaton, J. D. J. Kelley ...
    Ocean Steamships - A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances. A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move propellers or paddlewheels. ... Read more

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  • THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics

    550+ Gothic Ghost Stories, Occult Mysteries, Vampires, and Cosmic Dread

    by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce0, Arthur Machen1, William Hope Hodgson2, Arthur Conan Doyle3, Grant Allen4, Théophile Gautier5, Richard Marsh6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Thomas Hardy8, Charles Dickens9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Mark Twain3, Daniel Defoe4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Harriet Beecher Stowe5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman6, Louisa M. Alcott7, Edith Nesbit8, Mary Louisa Molesworth9, Francis Marion Crawford0, John Kendrick Bangs1, Gertrude Atherton2, J. K. Huysmans3, John Buchan4, Sabine Baring-Gould5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Oscar Wilde2, H. G. Wells3, Charlotte Perkins Gilman4, W. W. Jacobs5, Robert Louis Stevenson6, H. H. Munro (Saki)7, Wilhelm Hauff8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Jack London9, Pliny the Younger0, Helena Blavatsky1, Fergus Hume2, Florence Marryat3, Villiers de l'Isle Adam4, William Archer5, William F. Harvey6, Katherine Rickford7, Ralph Adams Cram8, Leopold Kompert9, Vincent O'Sullivan0, Ellis Parker Butler1, A. T. Quiller-Couch2, Fiona Macleod3, Lafcadio Hearn4, William T. Stead6, Gambier Bolton7, Andrew Jackson Davis8, Nizida9, Walter F. Prince0, Chester Bailey Fernando1, Brander Matthews2, Leonard Kip3, Frank R. Stockton4, Bithia Mary Croker5, Catherine L. Pirkis6, Leonid Andreyev7, Anatole France8, Olivia Howard Dunbar9, Richard Le Gallienne00, Sax Rohmer01, Horace Walpole02, William Thomas Beckford03, Matthew Gregory Lewis04, Ann Radcliffe05, Jane Austen06, John William Polidori07, Charlotte Brontë08, Emily Brontë09, Marjorie Bowen10, George W. M. Reynolds11, M. P. Shiel12, Adelbert von Chamisso13, S. Mukerji14 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn5, J. T. Bealby15, Keene Wallace16, Samuel Henley17, Isabel F. Hapgood18, C. J. Hogarth19 ...
    THE SPELL HAS BEGUN gathers more than 550 supernatural mysteries, macabre tales, and horror classics into an expansive map of the uncanny. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, and sensation fiction to decadent nightmare, psychological terror, occult speculation, and early weird fiction, the volume traces how dread assumes domestic, historical, comic, and cosmic forms. Canonical landmarks of ... Read more

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  • Maine Lingo

    A Wicked-Good Guide to Yankee Vernacular

    by John Gould ...
    John Gould's family first settled in Maine in 1618, so by the time he came along in the early 20th century, the Gould's were well steeped in the vernacular of the region, and his first inheritance was the turned-around, honed-down, and tuned-up language of his farming neighbors who seldom strayed beyond the village store. Maine Lingo was first compiled in 1975, when TV, radio, and other leveling ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • And One to Grow On

    Reflections of a Maine Boyhood

    by John Gould ...
    When John Gould was young, a boy learned about the sea--and arithmetic and knots and geography and life--from the old deep-water men living out their lives in snug harbors. He grew up knowing the woods; the way a church supper smells; the way the Ladies Aid bargained together before a food sale. The friendly, close-knit community life and the deep family affection gave him a foundation of sound ... Read more

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  • Dance Class

    American High School Students Encounter Anthony Powell’S Dance to the Music of Time

    Edited by John A. Gould ...
    Dance Class offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powells great comic novel A Dance to the Music of Time. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, and theme, but they also investigate historical background, chart personal relevance, parody characters and situations, even in one students case write a treatment for a drama.In examining Mrs. Erdleighs ... Read more

    $6.29 USD