The Best-loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

The Best-loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945084815

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This collection of 34 stories by Stuart includes "Youth," the macabre "Sunday Afternoon Hanging" and a tragic tale of adultery and murder, "The Old People." Provides a story-by-story commentary by H. Edward Richardson and a discussion of the origin of many of the stories and some of the characters and incidents on which they are based.


Thread that Runs So True

Thread that Runs So True

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0684719045

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A personal narrative of the author's experiences as a teacher in the mountain region of Kentucky. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


Daughter of the Legend

Daughter of the Legend

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945084426

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A regional love story set in the hills of Tennessee against a backdrop of mystery and racial misunderstanding. Dave, a young lumberjack, falls in love with Deutsia, a Melungeon girl. Her people are shunned by the valley people and the relationship splits the lifetime friendship of Dave and his best friend, Ben.


The Beatinest Boy

The Beatinest Boy

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher:

Published: 1989-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945084136

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Relates the adventures of an orphan named David who lives with his grandmother in the mountains of Kentucky.


Men of the Mountains

Men of the Mountains

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1979-12-31

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780813101439

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Twenty-one short stories explore the daily lives and activities of Kentucky mountaineers


To Teach, to Love

To Teach, to Love

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945084020

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Jesse Stuart is a great Kentucky novelist, short-story writer, poet, and teacher. He writes about his boyhood, school years, and experiences in college. He tells of nearly 50 years in a one-room rural schoolhouse.


Old Ben

Old Ben

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945084235

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When young Shan befriends a bull black snake, his Kentucky mountain family decides that perhaps the only good snake isn't a dead snake after all.


The Best-loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

The Best-loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

Author: Jesse Stuart

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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This collection of 34 stories by Stuart includes "Youth," the macabre "Sunday Afternoon Hanging" and a tragic tale of adultery and murder, "The Old People." Provides a story-by-story commentary by H. Edward Richardson and a discussion of the origin of many of the stories and some of the characters and incidents on which they are based.