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Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734721121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.

Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Eileen Brill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684631343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past. Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires—an internal battle that often results in self-destructive tendencies. When she attempts to push against the norms for women of her time in order to forge her own identity, she is met with resistance. Yet she might also be her own worst enemy, often alienating those who care deeply for her. Both manipulative and vulnerable, naive and conniving, Joan is, like many people, complex and misunderstood. Inspired by a letter written by the real Joan, found hidden in the wall of a Pennsylvania home more than half a century later, this story is a fictionalized imagining of who she was and what motivated her. Moving through several decades and events—from the 1918 influenza pandemic to Prohibition to the Great Depression to Vietnam—A Letter in the Wall examines the internal and external factors that influence one woman’s journey toward independence and empowerment.

Author: Mary Hood
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing—sometimes worse—lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service. In "A Country Girl," for example, she creates an idyllic valley where a barefoot girl sings melodies "low and private as a lullaby" and where "you could pick up one of the little early apples from the ground and eat it right then without worrying about pesticide." But something changes this summer afternoon with the arrival at a family reunion of fair and fiery Johnny Calhoun: "everybody's kind and nobody's kin," forty in a year or so, "and wild in the way that made him worth the trouble he caused." The title story in the collection begins with a visit to clean the graves in a country cemetery and ends with the terrifying pursuit of a young girl and her grandmother by two bikers, one of whom "had the invading sort of eyes the woman had spent her lifetime bolting doors against." In the story "Inexorable Process" we see the relentless desperation of Angelina, "who hated many things, but Sundays most of all," and in "Solomon's Seal" the ancient anger of the mountain woman who has crowded her husband out of her life and her heart, until the plants she has tended in her rage fill the half-acre. "The madder she got, the greener everything grew."

Author: Brill Harper
Publisher: Brill Harper
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Virginia Constance Kramer is a good girl. Until she meets the man that makes her want to be bad… He's got a record; she's never been so much as grounded. His old man is a convict; her dad is the police sergeant. He's seen too much darkness; she can barely see out of the stained-glass curtain the world wants her to hide behind. She's willing to fight her parents, the town, and the whole world if she has to, but first she has to get past the wall Joe Franklin has built around his heart. He thinks she's too good, too sweet, too pure for a man like him. She thinks being good is overrated. Author Confession: This is a slower burn romance than you might be used to from me, but I promise Virginia and Joe are supercouple material. It's the classic opposites attract, good girl/bad boy, other side of the tracks, her first time tropey goodness you need in your life. You know how sometimes it feels like nobody sees the real you? Well Joe really sees Ginny. He may be rough on the exterior, but he's the only one who understands how much pain she's in as her family grieves the death of her little sister. Watch him grow into an alphamallow right before your eyes. And then the slow burn will scorch your eReader. For readers who love: JA Huss, Carly Phillips, Sam Crescent, Lauren Landish, Alexa Riley, Madison Faye Over the top, bad boy good girl romance, wrong side of tracks romance, her first time with experienced older man, college romance, safe romance, safe read, no cheating, coming of age romance, alphamallow

Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420934199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: "The Tiredness of Rosabel," "At Lehmann's," "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding," "The Swing of the Pendulum," "The Woman at the Store," "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped," "Ole Underwood," "Millie," "Bains Turcs'," "The Little Governess," "An Indiscreet Journey," "The Wind Blows," "Prelude," "A Dill Pickle," "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais," "Bliss," "Psychology," "Pictures," "The Man Without a Temperament," "Revelations," "The Escape," "The Young Girl," "The Stranger," "Miss Brill," "Poison," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," "Life of Ma Parker," "Her First Ball," "Marriage y la Mode," "At the Bay," "The Voyage," "The Garden Party," "The Doll's House," "The Fly," and "The Canary."

Author: Steven Brill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145161201X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate. In it the author takes a look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children, and points the way to reversing that failure.

Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140181470
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 779

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Author: Joseph Lostracco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524965853
Category : College readers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Prakash Book Depot
Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
ISBN: 9789388810548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."