Author: Peg MeierPublisher: Neighbors Pub
ISBN: 9780933387027
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A collection of 44 articles that Peg Meier has written for the Star Tribune, about real Minnesota people.
The Last of the Tearoom Ladies, and Other Minnesota Tales
Author: Peg MeierPublisher: Neighbors Pub
ISBN: 9780933387027
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A collection of 44 articles that Peg Meier has written for the Star Tribune, about real Minnesota people.
Minnesota Genealogist
Author: Minnesota History
Author: Paperbound Books in Print
Author: Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
Through No Fault of My Own
Author: Coco IrvinePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452931348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women’s social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high. Coco’s diary carefully records her adventures, problems, and romances, written with a lively wit and a droll sense of humor. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her mother’s clothes or getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will captivate and delight preteen readers as well as their mothers and grandmothers. Peg Meier’s introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, while an afterword tells what happens to Coco as an adult—and reveals surprises about some of the other characters in the diary.
Books In Print 2004-2005
Author: Ed Bowker StaffPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
Wishing for a Snow Day
Author: Peg MeierPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Peg Meier's candid interpretation of the joys and pains of childhood through the decades--at home, at school, at play--reminds us that we were all children once, too.
The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis
Author: Sinclair LewisPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, applied subversive satire and razor wit in his portrayals of American life. Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he was one of the earliest writers to attack the myth of the noble, happy, American small town. Main Street, which he described as his "first novel to rouse the embattled peasantry," was praised and reviled--and immensely popular. This initial success was followed by such accomplished books as Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth, classics that today hold a prominent place in the American canon. Among the best of Lewis's works were short stories that he wrote for the popular magazines of the day. The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis collects the finest of these stories, acerbic tales set in Minnesota that reflect his favorite themes: local boosterism, the plight of strong women, native fascism, the grip of materialism. Lewis inserts himself as a character in two tales: he travels to Main Street's Gopher Prairie, where he talks to Dr. Will Kennicott, and to Babbitt's Zenith, where George Babbitt gives him a piece of his mind. Two of these stories have never been published, and six have not been reprinted since they first appeared.