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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was unpublished during her lifetime - this volume casts a light on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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Doc Gordon (Hardcover)
Mary E.Wilkins Freeman
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R1,617
R1,524
Discovery Miles 15 240
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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.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Emily Dorothy Scarborough compiled
these stories and her introduction is titled The Imperishable
Ghost. The famous modern short stories in the book are: The
Willows, by Algernon Blackwood; The Shadows on the Wall, by Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman; The Messenger, by Robert W. Chambers; Lazarus, by
Leonid Andreyev; The Beast with Five Fingers, by William Fryer
Harvey; The Mass of Shadows, by Anatole France; What Was It?, by
Fitz-James O'Brien; The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, by Ambrose
Bierce; The Shell of Sense, by Olivia Howard Dunbar; The Woman at
Seven Brothers, by Wilbur Daniel Steele; At the Gate, by Myla Jo
Closser; Ligeia, by Edgar Allan Poe; The Haunted Orchard, by
Richard Le Gallienne; The Bowmen, by Arthur Machen; and A Ghost, by
Guy de Maupassant.
Women on the Verge: American Women's Literature of the Progressive
Era presents a scholarly selection of some of the finest examples
of Women's Literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
now known as The Progressive Era. Following the Victorian era, and
on the heels of the twilight of the dominance of New England
writers in American literature, Progressive era American women
authors were starting to find their literary voices, unique from
the rest of the world. Edited by Laura Bonds and Shawn Conners, and
with cover art by Joan Turrell based on her series "Beyond the
Yellow Wallpaper," this collection captures the essence of those
voices, and includes the first American women authors to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Contents include short fiction and poetry by:
Sarah Orne Jewett
Kate Chopin
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Sara Teasdale
Margaret Widdemer
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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