Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110165984X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.
Sister Noon
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110165984X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110165984X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399162097
Category : Bloomington (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book Club," the story of an American family, ordinary in every way but one--their close family relative was a chimpanzee.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399162097
Category : Bloomington (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book Club," the story of an American family, ordinary in every way but one--their close family relative was a chimpanzee.
Noon Lady of Towitta, The
Author: Patricia Sumerling
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1862549826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm thirty-six hours later, but by the time an Aboriginal tracker can start his work, a gale has blown all clues away.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1862549826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm thirty-six hours later, but by the time an Aboriginal tracker can start his work, a gale has blown all clues away.
The Eastern Star
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Railway Conductors' Monthly
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Category : Railroad conductors
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Category : Railroad conductors
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Locomotive Engineers Journal
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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The Railway Maintenance of Way Employes Journal
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Railway Conductor
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Category : Railroad conductors
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : Railroad conductors
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Sister Carrie
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Sister Carrie edition that was published in 1900, long regarded as a watershed work in American fiction, was actually a censored misrepresentation of Drieser's original story. When, 80 years later, the Pennsylvania Edition first appeared, replete with scholarly apparatus, it was hailed from coast to coast as a literary event of major importance. The Pennsylvania Edition restored the 36,000 words that had been excised at the insistence of the author's wife, his publisher, and a friend. This edition contains the complete, unexpurgated text, without the scholarly apparatus, plus a new introductory essay by Thomas P. Riggio.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Sister Carrie edition that was published in 1900, long regarded as a watershed work in American fiction, was actually a censored misrepresentation of Drieser's original story. When, 80 years later, the Pennsylvania Edition first appeared, replete with scholarly apparatus, it was hailed from coast to coast as a literary event of major importance. The Pennsylvania Edition restored the 36,000 words that had been excised at the insistence of the author's wife, his publisher, and a friend. This edition contains the complete, unexpurgated text, without the scholarly apparatus, plus a new introductory essay by Thomas P. Riggio.