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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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When that music ceased he did not wait any longer nor enter the house, but stole away silently. This time he travelled the main road, which intersected the old one at the Hautville house. The village lights shone before him all the way. He was half-way to the village when he met his cousin, Lot Gordon. He knew he was coming through the pale darkness of the night some time before he was actually in sight by his cough. Lot Gordon had had for years a sharp cough which afflicted him particularly when he walked abroad in night air. It carried as far as the yelp of a dog; when Burr first heard it he stopped short, and looked irresolutely at the thicket beside the road. He had a half-impulse to slink in there among the snowy bushes and hide until his cousin passed by. Then he shook his head angrily and kept on. ... Read more

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I have always observed with wonder and amusement and a tender gladness the faculty with which young creatures, and particularly young girls, can throw off their minds for the time being the weight of cares and anxieties and bring all of themselves to bear upon those exercises of body or mind, to no particular end of serious gain, which we call play and frivolity. It may be that faculty is so ordained by a wise Providence. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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Studies in Short Fiction Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New MexicoEric Haralson, State University of New York at StonybrookThe coverage offered in Twaynes Studies in Short Fiction series extends beyond authors written works to discuss the writers personal life taken from interviews, essays, memoirs, and other biographical material; the critical reception to his or her work; and an overview of how the subjects output fits into the larger world of literature.Each volume is designed as a complete and self-contained companion to a particular writers short fiction, and will invigorate any reading of the writers works. Further enhancing its value as a reference work, each volume contains a chronology, selected bibliography, and an index, and library bindings with cloth covers insure maximum longevity. Writing mostly about New England at the turn of the century, Freemans prolific output includes novels, plays, poems, essays, childrens works, and movie scripts.Yet it is her short storiessome two hundred and fifty of them, gathered in fourteen collections during her lifetimethat forged Freemans literary reputation and fuel a continuing interest in her work.Her frequently anthologized A New England Nun, The Revolt of Mother, and A Village Singer,offer in compact, forceful style female protagonists with fierce dilemmas.Included in this volume are Freemans own observations on her fiery art, as well as four respected critical writings on A New England Nun.Highly recommended for academic, public, and school libraries. CHOICETwaynes Studies in Short Fiction series offers concise, sensitive surveys of the works of important practitioners of the short story. BooklistTwayne Publishers has done it again.These handsome volumes should be considered not only for the college library, but also for students, teachers, and devotees of the short story. Studies in Short Fiction ... Read more

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Considered a "regionalist" writer, like Kate Chopin and fellow New Englander Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman began writing at a time in America's history when literature was becoming the first "culture industry," and she found a growing market for her work in popular magazines. This collection shows Freeman's many modes--romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic--as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, of dry reserve, and of humor, satire, and irony. These last are most vividly expressed in The Jamesons, a series of sketches about village life reprinted for the first time since the turn of the century. Also included here are stories that center on questions of women's integrity, courage, and, often, privation; that explore cultural constructions of masculinity; and that dramatize the interconnection of rural New England with modern culture and commerce. ... Read more

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Wonderful Collection of Stories
This is the best collection of stories I've read since Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein. Very moving, beautiful stories of 19th-century women. ... Read more