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Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New England Nun written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New England Nun, and Other Stories written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140437393
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (373 download)
Download or read book A New-England Nun written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, humour, satire and irony. These stories centre on questions of women's integrity, courage and privation; explore the idea of masculinity; and dramatise the relationship between rural New England and modern culture and commerce. Also included here is 'The Jamesons', a series of sketches about village life reprinted for the first time since the turn of the 20th century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Cynthia A. Cherbak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (818 download)
Download or read book The revolt of mother written by Cynthia A. Cherbak and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A New England nun, and other stories written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258652623
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
Download or read book A Gala Dress written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486158381
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight vivid, poignant tales of self-reliant New England women. Well-known title story plus "A New England Nun," "Old Woman Magoun," "Gentian," "One Good Time," plus 3 others.
Author : César Aira
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219828
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book How I Became a Nun written by César Aira and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventional-wisdom overturner; he has a serious larger point to make. . . . Concepts like ecology, waste, preservation, and even the natural (as distinct from human) world are entirely anachronistic when applied to Indians in the days before the European settlement of North America." "Offers a more complex portrait of Native American peoples, one that rejects mythologies, even those that both European and Native Americans might wish to embrace."—Washington Post "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil ." So starts Cesar Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first ice cream, school, reading, games, friendship. The novel begins in Aira's hometown, Coronel Pringles. As self-awareness grows, the story rushes forward in a torrent of anecdotes which transform a world of uneventful happiness into something else: the anecdote becomes adventure, and adventure, fable, and then legend. Between memory and oblivion, reality and fiction, Cesar Aira's How I Became a Nun retains childhood's main treasures: the reality of fable and the delirium of invention. A few days after his fiftieth birthday, Aira noticed the thin rim of the moon, visible despite the rising sun. When his wife explained the phenomenon to him he was shocked that for fifty years he had known nothing about "something so obvious, so visible." This epiphany led him to write How I Became a Nun. With a subtle and melancholic sense of humor he reflects on his failures, on the meaning of life and the importance of literature.
Author : Joan Fox
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162516615X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Fifty Shades of Black and White written by Joan Fox and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a young nun in New England in the 1960s provides the backdrop for the provocative and highly relevant new novel Fifty Shades of Black and White: Confessions of a Naughty Nun. Eighteen-year-old Catherine Connor first enters the convent in September 1959. She begins her training as a postulant in Cumberland, Rhode Island. The story starts with her experiences in the novitiate and follows her as she takes her final vows. At the end of her postulant year, she becomes Sister Mary Irene Joseph. Her first mission after completing her education is to teach at a Catholic school in Fall River, Massachusetts. There she meets and falls in love with the young parish priest, Paul Kelly, who persistently pursues her. Catherine's experiences describe both convent life and her intimate love story, which is at times funny, sad, and melancholy. Fifty Shades of Black and White poses problems that the church is still struggling with today. Catherine's story is one you will never forget.
Author : Candace Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111083
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Great Short Stories by American Women written by Candace Ward and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.
Author : Lucy Larcom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A New England Girlhood written by Lucy Larcom and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory by Lucy Larcom, first published in 1889, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Carole Garibaldi Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830428
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Habits of Change written by Carole Garibaldi Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s--perhaps more so than any other group of contemporary women. Here these women speak of their active engagement in the events that disrupted their church and society and of the lives they lead today, offering their unique perspective on issues such as peace activism, global equality for women, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The interviewees include a Maryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, most recently in the Congo; an inner-city art teacher whose own paintings reflect the vibrancy of Haiti; a recovering alcoholic who at age 71 has embarked on her fourth ministry; a life-long nurse, educator, and hospital administrator; and an outspoken advocate for the gay and lesbian community. Told with simplicity, honesty, and passion, their stories deserve to be heard.
Author : Mary Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : Tale Blazers
ISBN 13 : 9780895987594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Revolt of Mother written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by Tale Blazers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wilkins Freeman [RL 7 IL 9-12] After 40 years, "Mother" takes a stand and pries a new house from her husband. Themes: seizing opportunities; demanding justice. 44 pages. Tale Blazers.
Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Humble Romance written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann M. Little
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218214
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright written by Ann M. Little and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771008791
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
Author : W. W. Jacobs
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473396107
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Monkey's Paw (Fantasy & Horror Classics) written by W. W. Jacobs and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1902 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties, publishing his first short story in 1895. Most of Jacobs' work appeared before the onset of World War I, and although the majority of his output was humorous in tone, he is best-remembered now for his macabre tales, particularly those contained in his 1902 collection The Lady of the Barge, such as 'The Monkey's Paw' and 'The Toll House'.
