Tillie Olsen

• Mar-1974
• / General Fiction
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Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses a...

• Oct-1978
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This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic.  Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a h...

• Apr-1979
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A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them -- from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.   With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedd...

• Mar-2008
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These two literary classics dare to pose difficult existential questions: What is the meaning of life? Was my life of value? Why am I dying? The narrative employed in Tolstoy's novella is linear and realistically detailed. The style of Olsen's story,...

• Sep-2013
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A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen’s writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style have, if anything, become even more striking over time. Collected here for the first time are sev...