More Florida Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813014859 ISBN 13: 9780813014852

Verlag: UNIV PR OF FLORIDA, 1996

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This companion volume to the popular Florida Stories offers readers another sampling from the rich heritage of Florida short fiction.  The collection ranges across a gallery of original characters and 150 years of the state's history and culture.
 Selections in this volume highlight distinctively Floridian settings and experiences, from W. B. Thompson's report of the Indian assault on the Cape Florida Lighthouse during the Second Seminole War to Padgett Powell's tale of the backroads personalities and attractions of present-day Florida.

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CONTRIBUTORS
Wyatt Blassingame
Ned Buntline
James Trammell Cox
Lawrence Dorr
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Rubylea Hall
Stetson Kennedy
Ernest Lyons
Kirk Munroe
Padgett Powell
Jack Rudloe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John W. B. Thompson
Constance Fenimore Woolson

Kevin McCarthy, professor of English and Florida studies at the University of Florida, is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Florida Stories (UPF, 1989), Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas (UPF, 1990), and Florida Lighthouses (UPF, 1990).

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This companion volume to the popular Florida Stories Offers readers another sampling from the rich heritage of Florida short fiction. The collection ranges across a gallery of original characters and 150 years of the state's history and culture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV PR OF FLORIDA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813014859
• ISBN 13: 9780813014852
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Leshan Lawrence
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Mccarthy Kevin
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar