Born Yesterday

  • Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel
    By Stephanie Insley Hershinow

    Recent work more directly focused on eighteenth-century empiricism (especially on scientific empiricism) only promises to enrich this conversation. See, for example, Courtney Weiss Smith, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, ...

  • Born Yesterday: Comedy in Three Acts
    By Garson Kanin

    THE STORY: The vulgar, egotistic junkman Harry Brock has come to a swanky hotel in Washington to make crooked deals with government big-wigs.

  • Born Yesterday
    By James Solheim

    Renowned illustrator Simon James brings sweetness and charm to James Solheim?s hilarious diary of a baby?and the result is a one-of-a-kind picture book no one will be expecting!

  • Born Yesterday
    By Rachel Williams-Smith

    The book is a memoir of growing up in physical and social isolation stemming from a one-family, cult-like version of extreme religion, yet shaking free from family dysfunction and spiritual abuse to develop a wholesome life grounded in ...

  • Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel
    By Gordon Burn

    And Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media creates and manipulates the stories we see ...

  • Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel
    By Stephanie Insley Hershinow

    What makes her argument compelling is how she inhabits the novels at the level of the sentence, taking her vocabulary from the novelists."—Critical Inquiry "Ultimately, to read this book was to confirm my suspicion that the best close ...

  • Born Yesterday
    By Joe Van Rhyn

    It's spring of 1964, people in the resort town of Pine Lake, Wisconsin are skittish when a stranger is found unconscious in the park.

  • Born Yesterday
    By Rachel Williams-Smith

    Increasing isolation and separation -- The wilderness -- Out of isolation and into the twenty-first century -- Another kind of wilderness -- God restores