![]() Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by the crew of the fishing schooner We're Here off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Protagonist Harvey Cheyne Jr., is the spoiled son of a wealthy California railroad magnate. ![]() Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of 23 November 1892. The book's title comes from the ballad " Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy," praising Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do." It is Kipling's only novel set entirely in North America. ![]() In that year it was then published in its entirety as a novel, first in the United States by Doubleday, and a month later in the United Kingdom by Macmillan. ![]() ![]() The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition with the last instalment appearing in May 1897. Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. 'My Life in 3 Acts' is the third of Hayes' recollections and was published just 2 years before her death. My favorite Hayes performance was from 'Anastasia' (1956). One wishes for more depth, more detail still her many admirers will want to read this. Her life was more devoted to the stage, and hence most readers will not have seen this work, but she managed 50+ performances on TV and 20+ films. Belying her goody-goody persona, her comments on people she has known and worked with are often pointed. Obviously more comfortable talking abut others than herself, she of fers many delightful anecdotes about such friends as Ruth Gordon, Lillian Gish, and Bea Lillie. She is candid, but does not dwell on the difficulties of her marriage to playwright Charles MacArthur, whose drinking problem increased after the death of their young daughter from polio. ![]() Debuting on Broadway in 1909, she was a well-known actress by the age of 20 and the "first lady" of the American theater since the 1930s. Now at the age of 89, she looks back on her 80 years in the theater. Hayes has already written on growing old- Our Best Years (coauthored with Marion Gladney LJ 7/84)-and with Thomas Chastain, she has authored a mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Queens.ĭenne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, where she is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. With Andrea Abi-Karam she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. She’s the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021 Nightboat, 2023). ![]() Riley Snorton, and Neon Yang will be in discussion with moderator Jo Livingstone.Ĭo-sponsored by the National Book Critics’ Circle and Barnard’s Center for Research on Women, this event will be streamed online with live captioning. Kay Gabriel, Denne Michele Norris, Casey Plett, C. “Trans Literature Now” invites experts from different sectors of the literary world for an interdisciplinary conversation about living, writing, reading, and publishing trans life today. Riley Snorton, moderated by Jo Livingstone | 7:00pmĬo-Sponsors: National Book Critics Circle Kay Gabriel, Denne Michele Norris, Casey Plett, and C. ![]() |