Download or read book Frances and the Irrepressibles at Buena Vista Farm Classic Reprint written by Frances Trego Montgomery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Frances and the Irrepressibles at Buena Vista Farm These children enjoyed far better going to this farm than to the seashore, moun tains, or any fashionable resort. It was one of the most attractive places one could imagine for, healthy, romping, growing children to pass a summer in, as there was everything for them to have fun with from fishing and sailing on the lake to riding on loads of hay and building log cabins in the woods. These were some of the pas times the older children enjoyed while the younger ones were happy playing round the house. There always were new little kittens and puppies to be inspected each year and divided among the youngsters after much arguing and disputing as to which was the prettiest, and as to who was entitled to first choice. Then there were the little, fluffy, yellow chickens just out of their shells, and last but not least, there was the swing; yes, the swing, and such a glorious one you never saw in all your life, so I am going to describe it to you minutely. In the first place it was hung from a high curved limb of a tall elm tree, so high that no ladder on the farm could reach it, so they had to wait until the men came along to mend the telegraph wires, when, having boots with long nails in them to help them climb the poles, Miss Amelia would ask them to put up the rope for the swing. The advantage of having such a long rope was that the swing went so high that the earth seemed dropping away and one could see across the lake at the bottom _of the hill and far away over the tree tops for miles and miles where the country faded into a purple mist. This swing was the beloved object of all the children who came to the farm and was the first thing they went to on arriving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Jean Stafford written by Charlotte Margolis Goodman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's best short story writers and author of three fine novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), and The Catherine Wheel (1952), Jean Stafford has been rediscovered by another generation of readers and scholars. Although her novels and her Pulitzer Prize–winning short stories were widely read in the 1940s and 1950s, her fiction has received less critical attention than that of other distinguished contemporary American women writers such as Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. In this literary biography, Charlotte M. Goodman traces the life of the brilliant yet troubled Jean Stafford and reassesses her importance. Drawing on a wealth of original material, Goodman describes the vital connections between Stafford's life and her fiction. She discusses Stafford's difficult family relationships, her tempestuous first marriage to the poet Robert Lowell, her unresolved conflicts about gender roles, her alcoholism and bouts with depression—and her amazing ability to transform the chaotic details of her life into elegant works of fiction. These wonderfully crafted works offer insightful portraits of alienated and isolated characters, most of whom exemplify not only human estrangement in the modern world, but also the special difficulties of girls and women who refuse to play traditional roles. Goodman locates Jean Stafford within the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. In her own right, and through her marriages to Robert Lowell, Life magazine editor Oliver Jensen, and journalist A. J. Liebling, Stafford associated with many of the major literary figures of her day, including the Southern Fugitives, the New York intellectual coterie, and writers for the New Yorker, to which she regularly contributed short stories. Goodman also describes Stafford's sustaining friendships with other women writers, such as Evelyn Scott and Caroline Gordon, and with her New Yorker editor, Katharine S. White. This highly readable biography will appeal to a wide audience interested in twentieth-century literature and the writing of women's lives.
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Download or read book Billy Whiskers at Home written by Frances Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic children's book features the humorous and exciting adventures as well as misadventures of the playful, but quite short-tempered Billy Whiskers the goat at the Watsons' farm. Billy Whiskers' comical experiences would delight the readers and bring them lots of fun and plenty of laughs. Billy Whiskers at Home is Volume 26th of the popular Billy Whiskers series of Frances Trego Montgomery. It has been the favorite book series of many children, including the former President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. This book contains a detailed biography of the author. It was edited for clarity and to provide readers a better reading experience. Original content remained intact. Original illustrated by C. W. Frank and Frances Brundage.
Download or read book The sign of the prophet A tale of Tecumseh and Tippecanoe written by J. B. Naylor and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sign of the Prophet: A Tale of Tecumseh and Tippecanoe"** by J. B. Naylor is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the early 19th-century American frontier. The story centers around Tecumseh, the renowned Shawnee leader, and the events leading up to the Battle of Tippecanoe, a significant conflict in American history. The novel explores Tecumseh's efforts to unite Native American tribes against encroaching American settlers and his vision for a confederation of tribes that could stand up to the growing pressure from the United States. The narrative delves into the political and social dynamics of the time, providing readers with a vivid portrayal of Tecumseh's leadership and the struggles of his people. The Sign of the Prophet"** is notable for its detailed depiction of historical events and its emphasis on the character of Tecumseh as a pivotal figure in Native American history. Naylor's work provides both an engaging story and an educational look at a crucial period in American history, offering insights into the complexities of the interactions between Native Americans and early American settlers.
Download or read book The Interior Castle written by Ann Hulbert and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important moment in American literary history takes life in this stunning biography of Jean Stafford, one of the most successful, admired--and troubled--of the brilliant and influential midcentury circle of writers and critics that included Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Peter Taylor, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell, Stafford's first husband. Ann Hulbert shows us how Stafford, raised in Colorado, the daughter of a failed writer of Westerns, came of literary age in the East, yet fiercely maintained her connection with her provincial background, forging the unique style that marked her highly acclaimed first novel, Boston Adventure; her Masterpiece, The Mountain Lion; her third novel, The Catherine Wheel; and the stories she published in The New Yorker and elsewhere, which were honored in 1970 with a Pulitzer Prize. We follow Stafford through the early experiences to which she returned again and again in her fiction, and which helped shape her disenchanted vision--her father's sudden loss of his fortune; her shame as an adolescent, living in a boardinghouse in Boulder run by her mother; her aesthetic experimentation as a member of the intellectually maverick "Barbarians" at the University of Colorado; her exciting but troubling Wanderjahr in Nazi Germany, where she watched civilization crumbling. We see her take her place as a forceful, attractive, witty, yet also insecure woman among a group of spirited young writers who were learning from and challenging their older mentors--the increasingly powerful Southern critics and the Partisan Review circle in New York. With her marriage to Lowell at twenty-four, she embarked on a feverishly creative but ill-fated coursethat held auguries of his and his fellow poets' tragic paths: she struggled with Catholicism, confronted domestic violence, battled with alcoholism and mental instability, and throughout it all wrote formally impeccable fiction. And we see her as she finds some happiness with her third husband, the writer A. J. Liebling, part of the New Yorker world that had become her home in the late 1940s. Throughout, we are made aware of Stafford's constant search for a bastion of order--a safe place, an escape from the unsettling sense of vulnerability that engulfed her, an interior castle--from which to approach her life and her art.
Download or read book Lovers And Losers written by Paul Burston and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony used to be a winner: five consecutive Top Ten hits, a haircut that was imitated by every Top of the Pops fan, and a coke habit that was little short of legendary. Of course this was back in the 80s, when Tony was part of pop duo A Boy and His Diva, singers of the synth-pop classic 'Lovers and Losers'. In 1984 they were the biggest band in Britain. That is before Katrina, the other half of the duo, had her heart broken and the friendship was destroyed. Now in his forties, missing his fame and his hairline, Tony has signed up for a new reality TV show called The Clink. This could be the ideal opportunity to relaunch the band and revive his comatose career. There's just one problem: Tony and Katrina haven't spoken in years. Meanwhile, Katrina is busy arranging a funeral for a cherished friend, and coping with his estranged mother. When Tony knocks on her door, his arrival reopens old wounds and raises some very uncomfortable questions. Paul Burston's third novel is a wise, witty and evocative novel about the decade of excess, and its many legacies - New Romantics, gender benders, electro-pop and AIDS.
