Anglický jazyk

1891

Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
Rok vydania: 2007
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780595437948

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O knihe

In the summer of 1891, Orrin Leslie Elliott brings his wife and young son to
Senator Stanford's Palo Alto Farm in Northern California to work for David
Starr Jordan, president of the new university being established there.

The Elliotts find their new surroundings to be bleak and isolated: college
buildings that look like a factory, little or no housing, and a murky water supply.
Nearby Mayfield is peopled with cowboys serviced by numerous saloons and
prostitutes. With faculty still to be hired, textbooks to be ordered, and
dormitories only half finished, plans to open the university in four months seem
ludicrous.

This is the story of the founding of Stanford University, as seen through the eyes
of the Elliotts, Dr. Jordan, and a sundry group of students. Rubin (Sosh)
Weinberg is the only Jewish student in the class of 1895. Fletcher Martin, ex-
U.S. Army officer, puts his life on the line for others. Sally Forrest, whose father
was slain by gunmen hired by the railroads, attempts to avenge her father's
death. Sam Cutter, a devious product of the streets of Chicago, performs acts of
chicanery-thievery, intrigue, and murder, including the tormenting of Sosh
Weinberg.

The first volume in a trilogy, 1891 entertains and informs as it captures the dayto-
day reality of life during Stanford University's early months.