Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian studies at East Tennessee State University, has edited books exploring the work of James Still, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Sherwood Anderson. The author of Blue Ridge Folklife, Breathing in Darkness: Poems, and Revelations: Poems, Olson coedited The Bristol Sessions: Writings about the Big Bang of Country Music and A Tennessee Folklore Sampler.
18 Ebooks by James Still
James Still: The Hills Remember
James Still (1906–2001) remains one of the most beloved and important writers of Appalachian literature. Best known for his acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), the Alabama native and adopted Kentu …
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€32.99
James Still: Chinaberry
Celebrated as the ‘Dean of Appalachian Literature, ‘ James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth …
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€21.99
James Still: The Wolfpen Notebooks
After keeping school for six years at the forks of Troublesome Creek in the Kentucky hills, James Still moved to a century-old log house between the waters of Wolfpen Creek and Dead Mare Branch, on L …
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€21.99
James Still: From the Mountain, From the Valley
"One of our greatest American poets. In particular he has captured the spirit and language of the Appalachian South . . . like no other." -Lee Smith, New York Times-bestselling author James …
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€18.66
James Still: Sporty Creek
"Hard times during the Depression and family sacrifices are treated with honesty and humor" in this YA book by the author of River of Earth (School Library Journal).Sporty Creek is a series …
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€12.63
James Still: River Of Earth
First published in 1940, James Still’s masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his paren …
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€21.99
James Still: The Run for the Elbertas
In language both spare and colorful, sure in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still’s stories reveal the lives of his people—lives of privati …
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€16.99
James Still: Rusties and Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles
The people of the Kentucky mountains and the southern Appalachians preserved a language alive with colorful turns of phrase and whimsical wit and for their amusement they created a rich vein of oral …
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€27.99
James Still: Chinaberry
Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature, " James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River …
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€67.44
James Still: Hills Remember
James Still remains one of the most beloved and important writers in Appalachian literature. Best known for his acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), the Alabama native and adopted Kentuckian left …
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€101.55
James Still: Wolfpen Notebooks
After keeping school for six years at the forks of Troublesome Creek in the Kentucky hills, James Still moved to a century-old log house between the waters of Wolfpen Creek and Dead Mare Branch, on …
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€236.75
James Still: From the Mountain, From the Valley
James Still first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet. Although he is better known today as a writer of fiction, it is his poetry that many of his essential images, such as the ‘migh …
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€38.99
James Still: Run for the Elbertas
In language both spare and colorful, sure in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still’s stories reveal the lives of his people — lives of …
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€74.38
James Still: Sporty Creek
With illustrations by Paul Brett Johnson
Sporty Creek is a series of short stories set in the Kentucky hills. Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still’s classic novel River of Ear …
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€16.99
James Still: Rusties and Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles
The people of the Kentucky mountains and the southern Appalachians preserved a language alive with colorful turns of phrase and whimsical wit and for their amusement they created a rich vein of oral …
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€27.99
James Still: Hounds on the Mountain
First published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes James Still’s personal experiences of eastern Kentucky through reflective folk poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through dea …
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€16.99
James Still: On Troublesome Creek
James Still left eastern Kentucky for Europe in 1941 after enlisting in the US Army during World War II, leaving behind a recently published, semi-autobiographical work of fiction, On Troublesome Cre …
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€21.99
