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- 271: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... in a Man-of-War (1850) fictionalized his experiences in the navy. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; or The White Whale (1851). The central theme of the novel is the conflict between Captain Ahab, master of the whaler Pequod ...
- 272: Al Capone
- ... as a partner instead of just an employee. He also took over management at the Four Deuces, a gambling joint and a whorehouse combined all in one and running a Hawthorne Race Track. Torrio was shot, barely surviving, he retired to Italy, turning over his leadership over to his right-hand man, Capone. Capone’s power increased immensly, now that he ...
- 273: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... in a Man-of-War (1850) fictionalized his experiences in the navy. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; or The White Whale (1851). The central theme of the novel is the conflict between Captain Ahab, master of the whaler Pequod ...
- 274: Labor Unions
- ... be changing as will be discussed later. Changes in Management Philosophy. Looking at the history of management development can shed some light on yet another possible cause. The well-known Hawthorne studies resulted in a change in management approach that has been evolving for many years. These studies found that productivity not only depended on the scientific approach to optimizing production ...
- 275: Walt Whitman
- ... Democratic Review" shortly after leaving his teaching job. This publication was known to pirate literature from Europe to save money, but it also printed the works of Poe, Lowell, Whittier, Hawthorne, as well as other well-known American lyricists. (Webster Orville III- page 123). It was this publication which gave Whitman his first break as a professional writer. The editor of ...
- 276: Washington Irving and His Works
- ... in Tarrytown, New York. His father was a merchant and owned an import business. Irving had literary influences early in his life. He was friends with Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Charles Dickens. Washington Irving had no formal schooling. Instead, he taught himself by reading as many books as possible. Washington Irving had other interests than just writing. Irving was ...
- 277: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales ...
- 278: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales ...
- 279: Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
- ... stuff you go to, if you want to write original weird stories. We're told all this stuff, you know, to go to the literature of Poe, to go to Hawthorne. This is all nonsense. These people dug their own symbols, their own needs, and their own terrors out of themselves, and got it on paper. They didn't get it ...
- 280: Why Mark Twain is the Greatest American Author of All Time
- ... author of all time. As I was reading the book Huck Finn I started to agree more with what Mencken had to say "Put him beside Emerson, or Whitman, or Hawthorne, or even Poe; he was palpably the superior of all of them". I could really relate to lots of the ideas and emotions that sprang into Tom and Huck's ...
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