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Madelon (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
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R607
Discovery Miles 6 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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The Debtor (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
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R740
Discovery Miles 7 400
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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 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."
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.
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Doc. Gordon (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
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R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, humour, satire and irony. These stories centre on questions of women's integrity, courage and privation; explore the idea of masculinity; and dramatise the relationship between rural New England and modern culture and commerce. Also included here is 'The Jamesons', a series of sketches about village life reprinted for the first time since the turn of the 20th century.
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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A young doctor comes to stay at the home of Doc Gordon to be an
intern to his country medical practice. He soon learns that the
family has a secret - one that's beginning to threaten the lives of
the entire household. Good story, with good characterization.
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