A Paul Green reader
- Title
- A Paul Green reader / edited with an introduction by Laurence G. Avery.
- Published by
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998], ©1998.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 297 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
- Summary
- A Paul Green Reader features Green's drama and fiction, with texts of three plays - including the famous second act of The Lost Colony - and six short stories. It also reveals the life behind Green's work through several of his essays and letters and an excerpt from his unique Wordbook, a collection of regional folklore. Avery's introduction outlines Green's life and examines the central concerns and techniques of his work.
- Uniform title
- Works. Selections. 1998
- Alternative title
- Works. 1998
- Subject
- Contents
- In Abraham's Bosom: The Tragedy of a Southern Negro -- Hymn to the Rising Sun: A Drama of Man's Waste -- The Lost Colony: A Symphonic Drama of Man's Faith and Work (Act II) -- The Cornshucking -- Salvation on a String -- Saturday Night -- Bernie and the Britches -- The Ghost in the Tree -- Fine Wagon -- To Ward Morehouse on In Abraham's Bosom -- To J. C. B. Ehringhaus and M. Hugh Thompson on the Bittings Case -- To E. M. Land on the Wellmon Case -- Drama and the Weather -- The University in a Nuclear Age -- To James Holly Hanford on the Development of North Carolina -- Paul Green's Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence (excerpt).
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- "A Chapel Hill book"--Half t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294).
- "Paul Green's works": p. 295-297.