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Book Synopsis Half A Lifetime Ago by : Elizabeth Gaskell
Download or read book Half A Lifetime Ago written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farmer in nineteenth-century England is torn between love and her sense of duty in this novella by the author of Wives and Daughters and Cranford. Susan Dixon is a hardworking, respected farmer living alone in the Westmorland Dales in northwest England. But that wasn’t always the case. She was once surrounded by her father and mother, her brother, and her beloved, the handsome Michael Hurst. Time and time again, Susan is put to the test as tragedy forces her to make difficult decisions that will affect the lives of those around her as well as her own . . .
Download or read book Half a Life written by Darin Strauss and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved in front of his car. The collision resulted in her death. With piercing insight and stark prose, Darin Strauss leads us on a deeply personal, immediate, and emotional journey—graduating high school, going away to college, starting his writing career, falling in love with his future wife, becoming a father. Along the way, he takes a hard look at loss and guilt, maturity and accountability, hope and, at last, acceptance. The result is a staggering, uplifting tour de force. Look for special features inside, including an interview with Colum McCann.
Book Synopsis Half a Life-time Ago by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-time Ago written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER I. Half a life-time ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded. She had also an hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to the wild fells that overhang Blea Tarn. In the language of the country she was a Stateswoman. Her house is yet to be seen on the Oxenfell road, between Skelwith and Coniston. You go along a moorland track, made by the carts that occasionally came for turf from the Oxenfell. A brook babbles and brattles by the wayside, giving you a sense of companionship, which relieves the deep solitude in which this way is usually traversed. Some miles on this side of Coniston there is a farmstead—a gray stone house, and a square of farm-buildings surrounding a green space of rough turf, in the midst of which stands a mighty, funereal umbrageous yew, making a solemn shadow, as of death, in the very heart and centre of the light and heat of the brightest summer day. On the side away from the house, this yard slopes down to a dark-brown pool, which is supplied with fresh water from the overflowings of a stone cistern, into which some rivulet of the brook before-mentioned continually and melodiously falls bubbling. The cattle drink out of this cistern. The household bring their pitchers and fill them with drinking-water by a dilatory, yet pretty, process. The water-carrier brings with her a leaf of the hound’s-tongue fern, and, inserting it in the crevice of the gray rock, makes a cool, green spout for the sparkling stream.
Book Synopsis Half a Life-Time Ago by : Elizabeth Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-Time Ago written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular nineteenth-century writer Elizabeth Gaskell packed her fiction with the kind of riveting social details that keep contemporary readers and fans of historical drama glued to the page. This collection of short stories offers a comprehensive introduction to her body of work, which rivaled Dickens' in terms of popularity at the height of her career.A short story featuring the life of the protagonist Susan. The story begins describing the country side and long time resident Susan, her current life. The narrator takes us back in time and tells the tale of the events that shaped her life and choices she had to make.
Book Synopsis Half a Life Time Ago by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life Time Ago written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Half a Life Time Ago" from Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era (1810-1865).
Download or read book Half a Life written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination.
Book Synopsis Half a Life-Time Ago by : Elizabeth Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-Time Ago written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a Life-time Ago: Large Print By Elizabeth Gaskell A classic tale in which a woman almost marries a violent man, and reflects on her choices in life. Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work.
Book Synopsis Destiny of Half a Lifetime by : Yun Shangnuan
Download or read book Destiny of Half a Lifetime written by Yun Shangnuan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three years of struggling in hell, he said, "I know you have a man hidden in your heart, but if I don't want something, I won't give it to LOSER!" He said: "You have destroyed my love, so — all the things and people you cherish, I will destroy!" Finally, one day, she died in her heart and handed him a signed divorce agreement. As for the person on the other side, he clenched the divorce agreement tightly in his hand. When she really disappeared from his life, he felt the pain of his ribs being pulled out ...
Book Synopsis A Lifetime Ago by : Melissa Kay Simonds
Download or read book A Lifetime Ago written by Melissa Kay Simonds and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Half a Lifelong Romance by : Eileen Chang
Download or read book Half a Lifelong Romance written by Eileen Chang and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family’s efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances—a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret—force the two young lovers apart. As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with feints and schemes, missed connections and tragic misunderstandings. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope—however slim—that they might one day meet again. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China.
Book Synopsis Half a Life-Time Ago (Esprios Classics) by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-Time Ago (Esprios Classics) written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography of Brontë. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851-53), North and South (1854-55), and Wives and Daughters (1865).
Book Synopsis Half A Lifetime Ago by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book Half A Lifetime Ago written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Readhowyouwant. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender tale of romance and lost love that touches the heart. With ups and downs and trivialities of life, the work elucidates serious relationships and romance. It relates the experiences of a woman who travels from her father's home to that of her husband, and the trouble that she encounters in between.
Book Synopsis Half a Life-time Ago by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-time Ago written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Elizabeth Gaskell classic tells the story of how disease, love, and ill fortune quickly age a Scottish farm girl.
Book Synopsis Half a Life-Time Ago by by : Elizabeth Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-Time Ago by written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer.Susan and Michael were to be married in April. He had already gone to take possession of his new farm, three or four miles away from Yew Nook--but that is neighbouring, according to the acceptation of the word in that thinly-populated district, --when William Dixon fell ill. He came home one evening, complaining of head-ache and pains in his limbs.
Book Synopsis On Wings of a Dream by : R. L. Dawson
Download or read book On Wings of a Dream written by R. L. Dawson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling lifelong journey of death, life, love and happiness.
Book Synopsis The Works by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Download or read book The Works written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Half a Life-Time Ago. By: Elizabeth Gaskell (World's Classics) by : Elizabeth Gaskell
Download or read book Half a Life-Time Ago. By: Elizabeth Gaskell (World's Classics) written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, ( Stevenson, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront�, published in 1857, was the first biography about Bront�. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851-53), North and South (1854-55), and Wives and Daughters (1865).
