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Heaven's my destination / Thornton Wilder.
LIBRA PS3545.I345 H4 2003 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traveling sales personnel--Fiction.
- Traveling sales personnel.
- Christian converts.
- Textbooks--Publishing.
- Textbooks--Publishing--Fiction.
- Textbooks.
- Christian converts--Fiction.
- Middle West--Fiction.
- Middle West.
- Depressions--Fiction.
- Depressions.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial, 2003.
- Summary:
- Meet one of Wilder's most memorable characters -- his famous take on Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression -- George Marvin Brush, traveling textbook salesman. As a fervent religious convert he is determined to lead a good Christian life as his travels take him, sometimes with sad and sometimes hilarious results, through the smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois -- and into the soul of America itself.
- Contents:
- George Brush tries to save some souls in Texas and Oklahoma
- Doremus Blodgett and Margie McCoy
- Thoughts on arriving at the age of twenty-three
- Brush draws his savings from the bank
- His criminal record: Incarceration No. 2
- Oklahoma City
- Chiefly conversation
- The adventure in the barn
- Margie McCoy gives some advice
- Good times at Camp Morgan
- Dick Roberts' nightmares
- Dinner with Mississippi Corey
- Further good times at Camp Morgan
- Important conversation with a girl named Jessie Mayhew
- Dick Roberts' nightmares concluded
- George Brush refuses some money
- Kansas City
- Queenie's boarding-house
- First word of Father Pasziewski
- George Brush drunk and disorderly
- Sunday dinner at Ma Crofut's
- More news of Father Pasziewski
- A moment of dejection in a Kansas City hospital
- Three adventures of varying educational importance: the evangelist; the medium; first steps in ahimsa
- The courting of Roberta Weyerhauser
- Herb's legacies
- Ozarksville, Missouri
- Rhoda May Gruber
- Mrs. Efrim's hold-up man
- George Brush's criminal record: Incarceration No. 3
- George Brush meets a great man and learns something of importance about himself
- The trial
- A road in Missouri
- Chiefly conversation, including the account of a religious conversion
- George Brush again sins against ahimsa
- Serious conversation in a park
- A wedding
- Practically an American home
- George Brush loses something
- Last news of Father Pasziewski
- Thoughts on arriving at the age of twenty-four.
- ISBN:
- 0060088893
- 9780060088897
- OCLC:
- 52429672
- Online:
- Publisher description
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