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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Book List in Order: 50 titles
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Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman: Including The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Apr-1979
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This volume brings together the works of two important American writers. Both Jewett and Freeman used as their settings the small towns of 19th-century New England, both created as their principal characters mature and elderly women. Their etched dra...
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Doc Gordon
- Sep-2005
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Originally published in 1936, here is a charming novel of a rural doctor's life, trials, and tribulations. Barter, conniving horse traders, and more face 'Doc.' Gordon! MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and died ...
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The Debtor
- Oct-2005
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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...
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Jane Field
- Dec-2005
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Amanda Pratt's cottage-house was raised upon two banks above the road-level. Here and there the banks showed irregular patches of yellow-green, where a little milky-stemmed plant grew. It had come up every spring since Amanda could remember....
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The Heart's Highway
- Jan-2006
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The narrative charmingly depicts the enduring power of love. The influence of feelings and emotions shapes and builds the character. Bliss for those who experience it, Freeman has made it a blessing for the reader as well. Portraying the deep love in...
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Doc.' Gordon
- Feb-2012
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It was very early in the morning, it was scarcely dawn, when the young man started upon a walk of twenty-five miles to reach Alton, where he was to be assistant to the one physician in the place, Doctor Thomas Gordon, or as he was familiarly called, ...
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A Gentle Ghost and Other Stories
- Jun-2012
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Six spooky tales by prominent 19th century American author Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman....
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The Wind in the Rose Bush
- Jun-2017
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The 6 stories in this collection add a new dimension to the fictional portrayal of New England life. The author's apparently simple, declarative prose moves the reader convincingly into a world where ghosts dwell and evil is real. These stories c...
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The Adventures of Ann
This Indenture Wittnesseth, That I Margaret Burjust of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Have placed, and by these presents do place and bind out my only Daughter whose name is Ann Ginnins to be an...
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By the Light of the Soul
Maria Edgham, who was a very young girl, sat in the church vestry beside a window during the weekly prayer-meeting....
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The Copy-Cat
THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Two little boys and a little girl can keep a secret-that is, sometimes. The two little boys had the advantage of the little girl because they could talk over the affair together, and the little gi...
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Evelina's Garden
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
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The Fair Lavinia
Excerpt from The Fair Lavinia Henry gave the other young man an im patient Shove. Enough of this nonsense He cried, angrily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...
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A Far-Away Melody And Other Stories
"We express our unfeigned admiration for her delicate work, when we first made acquaintance with it in A Far-away Melody. Miss Wilkins's fiction is, so far as the English tongue is concerned, unrivalled-a thing to itself. It depicts the humble villag...
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Giles Corey, Yeoman
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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The Givers
"This 1904 collection of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's short stories contains: ""The Givers,"" ""The Revolt of Sophia,"" ""Lucy,"" ""Eglantina,"" ""Joy,"" ""The Reign of the Doll,"" ""The Chance of Araminta,"" ""The Butterfly,"" and ""The Last Gift."""...
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The Green Door
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
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The Hall Bedroom, and Luella Miller
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
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In Colonial Times
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Pembroke
Pembroke was originally intended as a study of the human will in several New England characters, in different phases of disease and abnormal development, and to prove, especially in the most marked case, the truth of a theory that its cure depended e...
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The People Of Our Neighborhood
Freeman drew accolades for her short stories -- often portraits of New Englanders -- and for her superb eye for detail. She captured nuances of dress, home and household furnishings, food, and gift giving. The stories in The People of Our Neighborhoo...
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The Portion Of Labor
On the west side of Ellen's father's house was a file of Norway spruce-trees, standing with a sharp pointing of dark boughs towards the north, which gave them an air of expectancy of progress....
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Revolt of Sophia Lane
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
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The Shoulders of Atlas
Henry Whitman was walking home from the shop in the April afternoon. The spring was very early that year. The meadows were quite green, and in the damp hollows the green assumed a violet tinge - sometimes from violets themselves, sometimes from the s...
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Silence & Other Stories
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Understudies
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The Winning Lady
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Young Lucretia And Other Stories
Award-winning short-story writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was a gifted storyteller whose work was published in countless magazines. Young Lucretia and Other Stories collects thirteen tales, including the title story, “Seventoes’ Ghost,” and “W...
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Young Lucretia, And Other Stories
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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An Alabaster Box
We, said Mrs. Solomon Black with weighty emphasis, are going to get up a church fair and raise that money, and we are going to pay your salary. We can't stand it another minute. We had better run in debt to the butcher and baker than to the Lord....
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The Butterfly House
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T... -
Collected Ghost Stories
Collected Ghost Stories is a posthumous collection of stories by author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. It was released in 1974 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,155 copies. The book is the first collection of all of Freeman's supernatural stories and her ...
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Edgewater People
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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A Humble Romance
A long-held grudge, a woman left at the altar, two wily sisters running away from a nursing home. These are just a few of the incidents in this captivating collection of fourteen stories, mostly about female characters. An award-winning writer, Freem...
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The Jamesons
Until that summer nobody in our village had ever taken boarders. There had been no real necessity for it, and we had always been rather proud of the fact. While we were certainly not rich - there was not one positively rich family among us - we were ...
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Jerome, A Poor Man
One morning in early May, when the wind was cold and the sun hot, and Jerome about twelve years old, he was in a favorite lurking-place of his, which nobody but himself knew....
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The Love of Parson Lord and Other Stories
“There are few writers of short stories whose work has such distinction as that of Miss Mary E. Wilkins. Much as we admire the many good qualities in her longer novels, especially Pembroke, we feel that she is at her best in those dainty little ske...
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A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852 1930), born in Randolph, Massachusetts, began to publish stories about New England in the early 1880s. In the following decades, Freeman drew widespread praise for her intimate portraits of women and her realistic depiction...
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A New-England Nun
A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, humour, satire and irony. These stories centre on questions of women's integrity, courage and privation; ...
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Once Upon a Time and Other Child-Verses
Excerpt from Once Upon a Time: And Other Child-Verses
Rusting to the sweet Char ity Of little folk TO find some grace, in spite Of halting rhyme And frequent telling, in these little tales.
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The Pot Of Gold
The Flower family lived in a little house in a broad grassy meadow, which sloped a few rods from their front door down to a gentle, silvery river. Right across the river rose a lovely dark green mountain, and when there was a rainbow, as there freque...
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The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories
Eight poignant tales vividly portray patient, self-reliant heroines living in small New England villages .Well-known title story plus "A New England Nun," "Old Woman Magoun," "Gentian," "One Good Time," "The Selfishness of Amelia Lamkin," "The Apple ...
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Wind in the Rose Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Author Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman gained acclaim in her time as a chronicler of life in rural New England. In this creepy collection of supernatural tales, Freeman makes full use of both her spare, skillful prose and keen understanding of the regio...
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The Yates Pride
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Opposite Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three ...
