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Madelon (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
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R631
Discovery Miles 6 310
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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.
Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and at fifteen moved
with her family to Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1884, left without any
immediate family, she returned to Randolph, where she lived for
almost twenty years with her childhood friend Mary Wales. She began
to write seriously in the 1970s, & in the early 1880s her work
began to appear in such popular magazines as Harper's Bazar and
Harper's Monthly Magazine. At forty-nine Mary E. Wilkins married
Charles Manning Freeman, a New Jersey physician, and moved to
Metuchen. Thereafter she wrote under the name Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman. In April 1926, she received the William Dean Howells Medal
for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; later
that year she was among the 1st women to be elected to membership
in the Natl. Inst. of Art and Letters.
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The Debtor (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
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R768
Discovery Miles 7 680
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Six months after Arthur's attempt to purchase back his ancestral
acres, a man came to him with a proposal for him to furnish on
contract a large quantity of coal for the railroad. Arthur jumped
at the chance. The contract was drawn up by a lawyer in the nearest
town and signed. Arthur, trusting blindly to the honesty and
good-will of everybody, had hurried for his train without seeing
more than that the stipulated rates had been properly mentioned in
the contract. His wife was ill; in fact, their daughter was only a
few days old, and he was anxious and eager to be home. There had
been no strikes at that period in that vicinity, and indeed
comparatively few in the whole country. Arthur would almost as soon
have thought of guarding in his contract against an earthquake; but
the strike clause was left out, and there was a strike. In
consequence he was unable to fill the contract without ruin, and he
was therefore ruined. In the end the old friend of his father, who
had purchased his patrimony, remained in undisputed possession of
it, with an additional value of several thousands from the passage
of the railroad through one end of the plantation, and had,
besides, the mine. party who represented this man. He had been left
actually penniless with a wife and two babies to support, but as
his pocket became empty his very soul had seemed to become full to
overflowing with the rage and bitterness of his worldly experience.
This fine collection includes sixteen of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's
classic stories: "The Pot of Gold," "The Cow with the Golden
Horns," "The Christmas Monks," "The Silver Hen," and many more.
This fine collection includes sixteen of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's
classic stories: "The Pot of Gold," "The Cow with the Golden
Horns," "The Christmas Monks," "The Silver Hen," and many more.
This great short story collection includes twelve of Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman's best stories: "The Copy-Cat," "The Cock of the
Walk," "Johnny-In-The-Woods," "Daniel and Little Dan'l," "Big
Sister Solly," "Little Lucy Rose," "Noblesse," "Coronation," "The
Amethyst Comb," "The Umbrella Man," "The Balking of Christopher,"
and "Dear Annie."
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Doc. Gordon (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
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R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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Originally published in 1936, here is a charming novel of a rural
doctor's life, trials, and tribulations. Barter, conniving horse
traders, and more face "Doc." Gordon on his rural rounds!
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph,
Massachusetts and died in Metuchen, New Jersey. Among her published
regional short fiction and novels are A Humble Romance and Other
Stories, A New England Nun and Other Stories, Jane Field, and The
Portion of Labor. In 1926 she received the William Dean Howells
Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction
in fiction. That same year, she and Edith Wharton were among the
first women to be elected to membership in the National Institute
of Arts and Letters.
The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of
short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th
centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to
humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the
imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection
are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the
mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The
Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with
an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many
of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity.
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Madelon (Hardcover)
Mary E. Wilkins
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R1,529
Discovery Miles 15 290
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The disquieting tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman explore a world of
contrast, where the supernatural erupts out of authentically drawn
portraits of New England life. This is a world of witchcraft,
secrecy, domestic spaces turned uncanny and ancestral vengeances
inflicted upon the unfortunates of the present. Collecting the best
of the author's strange tales - including 'The White Shawl', which
was unpublished during her lifetime - this volume casts a light on
an underappreciated contributor to weird fiction and the shadowy
corners of a dark imagination.
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