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Author: Edna Ferber Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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Enter the world of working Chicago girls in the 1910s with Edna Ferber's collection of short stories, featuring everyday situations filled with charm and humor. Included titles featured are 'The Gay Old Dog', 'The Hooker-Up-The-Back', and 'The Eldest'. From the struggles of marriage to the temptations of shore leave, Ferber's stories offer a delightful glimpse into the lives of ordinary women in a bygone era.
Author: Edna Ferber Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
Enter the world of working Chicago girls in the 1910s with Edna Ferber's collection of short stories, featuring everyday situations filled with charm and humor. Included titles featured are 'The Gay Old Dog', 'The Hooker-Up-The-Back', and 'The Eldest'. From the struggles of marriage to the temptations of shore leave, Ferber's stories offer a delightful glimpse into the lives of ordinary women in a bygone era.
Author: Edna Ferber Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1528798139 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 215
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber, this collection of short stories features the tales of many brave, charming women who will stay with you long after you’ve set this volume down. Set in Chicago in the early 1910s, these 12 short stories mostly feature everyday American women. Edna Ferber was a humorous, witty writer with excellent skill for capturing the small details of normal life. Her writing is sometimes sad and at other times comedic, but her stories are always memorable. This volume features 12 short stories: - ‘Cheerful by Request’ - ‘The Gay Old Dog’ - ‘The Tough Guy’ - ‘The Eldest’ - ‘That's Marriage’ - ‘The Woman Who Tried to Be Good’ - ‘The Girl Who Went Right’ - ‘The Hooker-Up-the-Back’ - ‘The Guiding Miss Gowd’ - ‘Sophy-As-She-Might-Have-Been’ - ‘The Three of Them’ - ‘Shore Leave’ First published in 1918, Cheerful - By Request is now in a brand new edition featuring an introductory excerpt by Rogers Dickinson. This insightful collection of short stories by Edna Ferber is not to be missed by collectors of the Algonquin Round Table writers’ work.
Author: Timothy Hampton Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1942130600 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Introduction: A contagion, a power -- Early modern cheerfulness. Body, heaven, home : cheerful places -- Among the cheerful : the emotional life of charity -- Medicine, manners, and reading for the kidneys -- Shakespeare, or the politics of cheer -- Montaigne, or the cheerful self -- Cheerful economies and bourgeois culture. Social virtue, enlightenment emotion : Hume and Smith -- Jane Austen, or cheer in time -- Cheerful ambition in the age of capital : Dickens to Alger -- Gay song and natural cheer : Milton, Wordsworth -- Modern cheerfulness. The gay scientists : philosophy and poetry -- It is amazing! Self-help and self-marketing -- "Take it, Satch!" : cheer in dark times -- Conclusion: Cheer in pandemic days.
Author: Edna Ferber
Author: Edna Ferber
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Author: Timothy Hampton
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