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Book Synopsis Scarlet Sister Mary by : Julia Peterkin
Download or read book Scarlet Sister Mary written by Julia Peterkin and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-10-15T15:48:10Z with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the post-Civil War South on Blue Brook Plantation, Scarlet Sister Mary tells the story of Mary, a fifteen-year-old orphan girl in a close-knit Gullah community. As she prepares to marry the charismatic but unreliable July, Mary finds herself torn between tradition and her own desires. Love, community, and superstition intertwine as Mary learns who and what truly matter to her. Scarlet Sister Mary, written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, is notable for its depiction of African-American life, particularly the Gullah people; and especially so because it was written by a white author, something very unusual for the era. It won Julia Peterkin the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1929. The Pulitzer was not without controversy. The jury chair had spoken publicly of another candidate, Victim and Victor by John Rathbone Oliver, as his favorite for the prize, which was reported in Publishers’ Weekly as being the actual announcement of the winner. Shortly afterward, The New York Times published an article by the head of the Advisory Board refuting Publishers’ Weekly. Ultimately, the Advisory Board chose Scarlet Sister Mary as the winner and, subsequently, the jury chair resigned. Despite this, the novel remains a noteworthy part of the early 20th-century conversation on race and Southern literature. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis The Peterkin Papers by : Lucretia Peabody Hale
Download or read book The Peterkin Papers written by Lucretia Peabody Hale and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorous adventures of a foolish family whose problems are righted by the Lady from Philadelphia.
Download or read book The Cage written by Rollie Peterkin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people spend their lives trying to escape some kind of cage. Rollie Peterkin left behind conventional success and stepped into one. When his college wrestling career ended in heartbreak, Rollie fell short of his dream of standing on the national podium. After graduating with an Ivy League degree, he tried to take solace in the lucrative Wall Street job offer that awaited him. He vigorously launched himself into his new career as a bond trader and grew accustomed to fancy dinners, expense accounts, late nights, and early mornings. Rollie was achieving all of his goals, but began to feel like something was missing. During a trip to Peru, a chance encounter with a legendary cage fighter would inspire him to question the well-worn path to success he had always known. Soon after, Rollie plotted his escape and ultimately left behind the life of luxury to pursue a savage dream. Along the way he faced life changing obstacles that he never could have foreseen in his wildest dreams. From yuppie Manhattanite to blood-soaked warrior in South America, The Cage traces Rollie's fight for meaning, substance, and true value.
Book Synopsis One Thousand Beards by : Allan Peterkin
Download or read book One Thousand Beards written by Allan Peterkin and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every man has the capacity to grow facial hair, but the decision to do so has always come with layers of meaning. Facial hair has traditionally marked a passage into manhood, but its manifestations have been determined by class, religion, history and occupational status. In the end, the act of displaying facial hair is still regarded as a form of ultimate cool. With wit and insight, One Thousand Beards delves into the historical, contemporary and cultural meaning of facial hair in all of its forms, complete with numerous photographs and illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers by : Lucretia P. Hale
Download or read book The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers written by Lucretia P. Hale and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady from Philadelphia records the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: They sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they’ve forgotten to unhitch the horse; they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way; they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkins out of their latest scrape. A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Lady from Philadelphia restores our astonishment at the ordinary, finding a rich vein of humor and happy surprise in the mere fact of our surviving the trivialities and tribulations of family life.
Book Synopsis A Gentleman's Murder by : Christopher Huang
Download or read book A Gentleman's Murder written by Christopher Huang and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a half-Chinese detective protagonist, A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER is a must for those who love mysteries and reads like a Christie-esque whodunit with a modern eye toward the historical treatment of Chinese veterans and post-war racism.
Book Synopsis Roll Jordan, Roll by : Mrs Julia (Mood) Peterson
Download or read book Roll Jordan, Roll written by Mrs Julia (Mood) Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peterkin Papers by : Lucretia Peabody Hale
Download or read book The Peterkin Papers written by Lucretia Peabody Hale and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peterkin family goes thru life in a very muddle headed way, but the "lady from Philadelphia" is always there to straighten them out.
Book Synopsis Green Thursday by : Julia Mood Peterkin
Download or read book Green Thursday written by Julia Mood Peterkin and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Devil and a Good Woman, Too by : Susan Millar Williams
Download or read book A Devil and a Good Woman, Too written by Susan Millar Williams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale biography of the South Carolina writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize follows her pioneering work as a chronicler of the collapse of Southern plantation life and its effect on African Americans. UP.
Book Synopsis The Complete Peterkin Papers by : Lucretia P. Hale
Download or read book The Complete Peterkin Papers written by Lucretia P. Hale and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peterkin Papers by : Lucretia P. Hale
Download or read book The Peterkin Papers written by Lucretia P. Hale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Peter Peterkin by : Gilly Bear
Download or read book The Adventures of Peter Peterkin written by Gilly Bear and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black April by : Julia Mood Peterkin
Download or read book Black April written by Julia Mood Peterkin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black April, the foreman of Blue Brook Plantation, must confront his own mortality and the tragic consequence of human desire in this simple tale of black country life in coastal South Carolina.
Book Synopsis The Last of the Peterkins by : Lucretia P. Hale
Download or read book The Last of the Peterkins written by Lucretia P. Hale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Last of the Peterkins by Lucretia P. Hale
Book Synopsis The Last of the Peterkins, with Others of Their Kin by : Lucretia P. Hale
Download or read book The Last of the Peterkins, with Others of Their Kin written by Lucretia P. Hale and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of tales concerning a family named 'Peterkin' - first published in 1880. The Peterkins are a likable but utterly inept family, that possess genius, reason, logic, and resourcefulness - but are noticeably lacking in common sense. A humourous and entertaining tale, this novel will appeal to fans of Hale's work, as well as those with an interest in upper-middle-class life in the late-nineteenth century. The chapters of this book include: "Elizabeth Eliza Writes a Paper", "Elizabeth Eliza's Commonplace-Book", "The Peterkins Practise Travelling", "The Peterkins' Excursion for Maple Sugar", "The Peterkins at Home", "Mrs. Peterkin in Egypt", etcetera. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Book Synopsis THE ADVENTURES OF PETERKIN by : GILLY BEAR
Download or read book THE ADVENTURES OF PETERKIN written by GILLY BEAR and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For, when the growly wind took to blowing over the pumpkin patch and set the fat yellow balls of pumpkins swaying from this side to that on their slender vines, poor Peterkin would be jounced clear out of bed and sent spinning round and round the circled pumpkin wall. “Ugh, ouch!” he would groan. “My poor head’s all bumps and bruises. Ugh, ugh! Why in the name of everything foolish did I ever come to live in a pumpkin? Why didn’t I stay in a sensible house, and live like other folks live? Oh, ouch!” And then, as the wind gave one last roar and his jouncing little home gave one last, extra large somersault on its vine, Peterkin would usually find himself thwacked back into bed again, with his feet on the pillow and his head buried deep in the mattress. — From the Books
