Deadwood

Read Now

Download Book

Deadwood

DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.

ISBN: 1400079713

Author: Pete Dexter

Publisher: Vintage

Rating: 3.97

Read Now

Download Book

 

The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

Read Now

Download Book

The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

In 1771, at the age of 65, Benjamin Franklin sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature. On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the "Autobiography" for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press has published a special edition of Franklin's "Autobiography," including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume also includes four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania.

ISBN: 0812219295

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Rating: 3.80

Read Now

Download Book