Download or read book 7 best short stories by Gertrude Atherton written by Gertrude Atherton and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.This edition is dedicated to Gertrude Atherton was an American author. Her bestseller Black Oxen was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was sometimes controversial, especially for her anti-communism and her white supremacist views.Works selected for this book:The Bell in the Fog; The Striding Place; The Dead and the Countess; The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number; A Monarch of a Small Survey; The Tragedy of a Snob; Crowned with One Crest.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
Download or read book Gertrude Atherton written by Charlotte S. McClure and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state, California. Her best-seller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial.
Download or read book Short Stories written by Gertrude Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short StoriesBy Gertrude Atherton
Download or read book The Striding Place written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Striding Place is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1896. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in her home state, California. Her best-seller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial. Atherton's first publication was "The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance," serialized in The Argonaut in March 1882 under the pseudonym Asmodeus. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. In 1888, she left for New York, leaving Muriel with her grandmother. She traveled to London, and eventually returned to California. Atherton's first novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin. In 1889, she went to Paris at the invitation of her sister-in-law Alejandra Rathbone (married to Major Jared Lawrence Rathbone). That year, she heard from British publisher G. Routledge and Sons that they would publish her first two books. William Sharp wrote in The Spectator praising her fiction and would later invite Atherton to stay with him and his wife, Elizabeth, in South Hampstead. In London, she had the opportunity through Jane Wilde to meet Oscar Wilde, her son. She recalled in her memoir Adventures of a Novelist (1932) that she made an excuse to avoid the meeting because she thought he was physically repulsive. In an 1899 article for London's Bookman, Atherton wrote of Wilde's style and associated it with "the decadence, the loss of virility that must follow over-civilization."
Download or read book The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories written by Gertrude Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Atherton has written an original and unusually able book." -Black and White "Not one of the stories could be called commonplace; they are strong and cleverly written, as might be expected from their author." -Country Life "That find gift of imaginative insight that has always stood Mrs. Atherton in good stead, is seen at its best in some of these short stories....The best that is in the book is very good indeed." -Vanity Fair "Mrs. Atherton has done work far above the average before, but there are one or two tales in this collection that bring her very close to the company of the immortals." -Bystander "'The Monarch of a Small Survey,' and 'The Tragedy of a Snob,' are, to our thinking, the pick of the bunch. The description in the first of the scene where a doctor refuses morphia to a morphia maniac, with the direct intention of ending her wretched life and freeing her husband from lifelong bondage, is tragic in its intensity....In the third, Mrs. Atherton has painted with much skill the disenchantment of a very ordinary young man who has unexpected come into a fortune, but finds that mere money will not always open the way to the best fashionable circles." -The Bookseller "A book to mark down to be read." -Week's Survey "A certain rough power of presentation and an insight into character, especially feminine character." -The Academy and Literature "Something unique in weirdness, mystery and wickedness." -New York Observer "The same ability shown by this author in her brilliant novels named 'The Conqueror' and 'Rulers of Kings,' is evident throughout these shorter tales. The writer's aptitude for dramatic development is notably present in the titular one, as well as in that entitled 'Talbot of Ursula' at the close of the book." -The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature "These tales are exceedingly well written, and are the product of an original mind." -Public Opinion Contents I. THE BELL IN THE FOG II. THE STRIDING PLACE III. THE DEAD AND THE COUNTESS IV. THE GREATEST GOOD OF THE GREATEST NUMBER V. A MONARCH OF A SMALL SURVEY VI. THE TRAGEDY OF A SNOB VII. CROWNED WITH ONE CREST VIII. DEATH AND THE WOMAN IX. A PROLOGUE (TO AN UNWRITTEN PLAY) X. TALBOT OF URSULA
Download or read book Sleeping Fires written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a San Francisco of simple, stately homes and wooden sidewalks -- in a time when the ladies of Rincon Hill would take their carriages to Market Street, and then gather to discuss the fortunes being made and lost in this veritable Southern Arcadia of a city. Even after the Civil War, the North suffered defeat after defeat in California. The South had its last stronghold there -- defiantly aristocratic in the face of the common Northerners, whose arrivals were never quite welcome. In San Francisco numerous hopes centered upon young Dr. Talbot, who seemed well along the road to fortune. Although often surrounded by beautiful and vivacious girls, he always avowed he had seen too much of babies, and should die an old bachelor. Besides, he loved them all the girls -- when he did not damn them roundly, which he sometimes did . . . to their secret delight. But now he affronted them by marrying someone no one had set eyes upon; and he even lacked the grace to go to his native South, in marrying an outsider. He had gone to Boston, of all places, to find a wife Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) wrote such novels rich in historical detail as The Californians, The White Morning and What Dreams May Come.
Download or read book A Daughter of the Vine written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BLACK OXEN written by GERTRUDE ATHERTON and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book California s Daughter written by Emily Wortis Leider and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the controversial turn of the century American novelist, and describes how she overcame the social restrictions on women to become a writer
Download or read book Gertrude Atherton Black Oxen The Bestseller of 1923 written by Gertrude Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Franklin Horn was born on October 30th, 1857, in San Francisco, California. Her parents separated in 1860 when she was two years old, and she was raised by her maternal grandfather, Stephen Franklin, a devout Presbyterian. He insisted she be well read, and was a great influence on her. She attended St. Mary's Hall high school in Benicia, California, and, briefly, the Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. In Kentucky, the rebellious Gertrude met George H.B. Atherton, who was courting her mother. His attentions wandered to Gertrude and, after she accepted his sixth proposal, they eloped on February 15th, 1876. She went to live with him and his domineering Chilean mother. Gertrude found life stultifying. As a result of her disappointment she began to develop an independent life. But two tragedies changed her life dramatically: her son George died of diphtheria, and her husband died at sea. She was left with their daughter Muriel but and needed to support herself. Her mother-in-law agreed to raise Muriel. Her first publication was 'The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance', and serialised in The Argonaut in 1882. When she told her family, she was ostracized. Gertrude's first novel, 'What Dreams May Come', was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin. With the death of her grandfather and her mother-in-law she returned to California to resume care of Muriel. In 1891, while writing a weekly column for The San Francisco Examiner, she met Ambrose Bierce, with whom she carried on a love-hate relationship. She wrote 'Doomswoman' in 1892, it was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and as a book in 1893. The story focuses on Chonita Moncada y Iturbi and her love of Diego Estenega, as he dreams of modernizing California. In 1892, Atherton left for New York to write for the New York World. She wrote letters to Bierce, confiding her loneliness, her dismay at freelance writing and her dislike of eastern literary circles. Whilst there though she published another California novel, 'Before the Gringo Came' (1894). Following this was 'Patience Sparhawk and Her Times' (1897), but it proved to be controversial. Its rejection encouraged her to leave for London. In 1898, she completed 'The Californians', her first novel set in the post-Spanish era. Critics received this much more positively: The Spectator said "The novel fairly establishes her claim to be considered as one of the most vivid and entertaining interpreters of the complex characters of emancipated American womanhood." Further works followed, many from her Califorina series dealing with the social history of California. These included 'The Splendid, Idle Forties' (1902), 'The Conqueror' (1902), a fictionalised biography of Alexander Hamilton; and her sensational, semi-autobiographical novel 'Black Oxen' (1923), about an aging woman who miraculously becomes young again after glandular therapy. 'Black Oxen' was an out and out success and the best-selling book of 1923. Gertrude wrote several stories of supernatural horror, including 'Death and the Woman', and 'Crowned with One Crest', as well as 'The Foghorn', and the much anthologised 'The Striding Place'. She was an early feminist well acquainted with the plight of women although she spoke against its militancy. Add to this her strong-will, independent-mind, and sometimes her oversteps into controversy, especially over anti-communism and its easy to identify why her novels had such sharp and strong characters. Gertrude Atherton died on June 14th, 1948. She is buried in Cypress Lawn cemetery in Colma, California.
Download or read book The Valiant Runaways written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roldan Castanada walked excitedly up and down the verandah of his father's house, his thumbs thrust into the red silk sash that was knotted about his waist, his cambric shirt open at the throat as if pulled impatiently apart; the soft grey sombrero on the back of his curly head making a wide frame for his dark, flushed, scowling face. There was nothing in the surroundings to indicate the cause of his disturbance. The great adobe house, its white sides and red tiles glaring in the bright December sun, would have been as silent as a tomb but for the rapid tramping of Roldan and the clank of his silver spurs on the pavement. On all sides the vast Rancho Los Palos Verdes cleft the horizon: Don Mateo Castanada was one of the wealthiest grandees in the Californias, and his sons could gallop all day without crossing the boundary line of their future possessions. The rancho was as level as mid-ocean in a calm; here and there a wood or river broke the sweep; thousands of cattle grazed. Now and again a mounted vaquero, clad in small-clothes vivified with silver trimmings, dashed amongst tossing horns, shouting and warning.
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Gertrude Stein written by Gertrude Stein and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherwood Anderson in his public introduction to Stein's 1922 publication of Geography and Plays wrote: "For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entirely new recasting of life, in the city of words. Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even forgone the privilege of writing the great American novel, uplifting our English speaking stage, and wearing the bays of the great poets to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, the honest working, money saving words and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half forgotten city." Check out this seven short stories by this author carefully selected by critic August Nemo: - Ada. - Miss furr and Miss Skeen. - France. - Americans. - Italians. - A Sweet Tail. - In the Grass.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Salem Public Library written by Salem Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Salem Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Fiction 1901 1925 written by Geoffrey D. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-13 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Download or read book The Splendid Idle Forties written by Gertrude Atherton and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published at the turn of the century, ‘The Splendid, Idle Forties’ by feminist author Gertrude Atherton is a collection of short stories, all set in California. Romance and forbidden love are key themes throughout, and though each story stands alone, many refer to previous events and characters. Full of vivid descriptions, this is a wonderful collection of short stories from the Golden State, which inspires nostalgia for a bygone age. Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) was an American novelist, short story writer and early feminist. Born in California, Gertrude attended schools in California and Kentucky and became widely read. She married George H.B. Atherton in 1876, and lived with him and his mother in San Francisco, where they had two children. Atherton struggled with married life, her husband did not support her writing ambitions and Gertrude found life as a wife and mother stifling. When her husband died at sea in 1887, Atherton felt free to pursue her burgeoning career as an author and went on to publish over 50 novels. She is best known for her California series of novels which explored the social history of California and included popular works such as ‘The Californians’ and the controversial ‘Black Oxen’ which was adapted into a silent movie in 1923. Feminist themes and strong female characters are common in her novels. She died in San Francisco in 1948.
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Booth Tarkington written by Booth Tarkington and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the american author Booth Tarkington. Tarkington is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Works selected for this book: The Fascinating Stranger; The Party; The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill; Jeannette; The Spring Concert; Willamilla; The Only Child. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
