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The Debtor (Paperback)
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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R458
R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
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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.
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Pembroke
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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R894
Discovery Miles 8 940
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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.
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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Pembroke (Paperback)
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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R646
Discovery Miles 6 460
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