Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822202059
A serious play about two women who run a school for girls.
Author : Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Storytelling
ISBN :
This is a collection of stories relating to a child's everyday experiences.
Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780879239718
Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair." Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the "Mouse-Tower on the Rhine"), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.
Author : Marcia Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2005-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312996505
Willett fans will cherish this redemptive story set in seaside Devon, England, of two elderly sisters who remember their own private loves and secret losses as they attempt to comfort a young woman who has also been shockingly betrayed. Martins Press.
Author : Arthur Stanley Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN :
Wholesome, truthful, uplifting, inspiring stories for boys and girls.
Author : Kenneth S. Robson
Publisher : Lyre Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Adolescent psychiatry
ISBN : 9780615391984
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR is a "must read" according to Dr. Robson's colleagues in the field of child psychiatry. They are delighted by the book's combination of compassion, insight, poetry, and candor. They find its emphasis on non-chemical therapy to be a necessary antidote to the more mechanistic, biological approaches currently in vogue. And they note that the book is equally important to professionals and the general public. No one can read this engaging, witty, devastatingly honest, and wonderfully wise memoir without feeling its direct relevance to the sorrows, dangers, and triumphs we have all experienced as children and continue to experience in the lives of the young in our immediate and extended families. Whoever we are, wherever we have been, this book cuts deeply into our common humanity.
Author : Gémino H. Abad
Publisher : UP Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789715425407
Literature from the Philippines, distributed on behalf of University of Philippines by University of Hawai'i Press.
Author : Kenneth N. Taylor
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 1997-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802425140
Brief anecdotes discuss questions relating to God and the Bible. A prayer, a hymn, and suggested readings from the Bible follow each chapter.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN : 9780140071771
Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Quill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Lesbians
ISBN : 9780688020545
The year: 1811. The place: Edinburgh, Scotland. A student accuses her school mistresses of having sex together. This leads to the immediate withdrawal of all their students and the collapse of their school. To clear their names - which are all they have left - they sue for libel. Drawing on original sources and her own informed imagination, noted feminist scholar Lillian Faderman reconstructs this real-life drama, which inspired Lillian Hellman's Broadway hit The Children's Hour. In court transcripts we follow the witnesses' contradictory testimony. In the judges' notes we see how men interpreted women's behavior in light of their prejudices. Through the testimony of the students of the school we learn about the social and sexual pressures that shaped the lives of nineteenth-century women. And in her personal reflections the author explains the meaning of these events for all women today. The result is a remarkable and gripping work of scholarship, a moving human drama that reveals life as it was truly lived in the nineteenth-century. For this challenge to the honor of two teachers raised troubling issues of class and justice, of social order, of whether or not women were sexual beings, capable of feeling the same desires and needs as men. Provocative and innovative, Scotch Verdict is a brilliant illumination of a crucial moment in women's history. -- from back cover.
