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Jan 1, 1875 — Jan 1, 1956· 81 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · DRAMA · FICTION

Percy MacKaye

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New York City, United States
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THE following Tale was found among the papers of the tale Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers.

— from Rip Van Winkle

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Rip Van Winkle

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Escaping from his nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle heads for the woods of the Kaatskill Mountains. There he meets a dwarf and when Rip drinks from the odd man’s keg he soon falls into a deep slumber. When he awakens the sun in shining brightly and he discovers he has grown a gray, foot-long beard. He has been asleep for twenty years!

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The playhouse and the play

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The immigrants

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In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself. The first novel of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is fast-paced, emotional historical fiction that captures the wide range of relationships across Immigrant America during the tumultuous defining events of the early twentieth century.

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