Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. Since then, the extraordinary stories that once delighted her legions of fans every festive season have gone largely out of print and unread. Now, for the first time, The Last Gift presents a collection of Freeman’s best Christmas writing, introducing these funny, poignant, provocative, and surprisingly timely holiday tales to a new generation of readers.
Through her different genres of work including children's stories, poems, and short stories, Mary Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist. During the time which she was writing, she did this in nonconventional ways; for example, she diverged from making her female characters weak and in need of help which was a common trope in literature.Come and enjoy the seven selected short stories of this author.A New England NunAnn Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings Luella Miller Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas The Gospel According To JoanThe Revolt of "Mother
Originally published in 1901 and illustrated throughout, this is an absorbing collection of short stories. Chapters include; The cat, The monkey, The squirrel, The Lost Dog, The Parrot, The Doctor's Horse, Bouncing Bet, Prince's Feather, Arethusa, Mountain Laurel, Prony and Morning Glory.....Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's 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 artwork.
Henry realized all the glory of it, but it filled him with a renewal of the sad and bitter resentment, which was his usual mood, instead of joy. He was past middle-age. He worked in a shoe-shop. There was nothing else in store for him until he was turned out because of old age. Then the future looked like a lurid sunset of misery.
Includes "Sarah Edgewater," "The Old Man of the Field," "The Voice of the Clock," "Value Received," "The Flowering Bush," "The Outside of the House," "The Liar," "Sour Sweetings," "Both Cheeks," "The Soldier Man," "The Ring with the Green Stone," and "A Retreat to the Goal.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was a prominent 19th century American author. She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College and West Brattleboro Seminary. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, "A Humble Romance and Other Stories" (1887) and "A New England Nun and Other Stories" (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life. Freeman is also remembered for her novel "Pembroke" (1894). In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "The Portion of Labor" is one of the first labor novels. It's a closely detailed look with finely drawn characters at the relations between labor and capital, and the economic conditions of a New England town. Freeman's heroine leads a strike by workers in a shoe factory for better wages and working conditions, but her efforts are complicated by her feelings for the owner.
The ground was covered with white frost, the trees, the house-roofs, the very air, were all white. In the west a transparent moon was slowly sinking; the east deepened with red and violet tints. Then came the sun, upheaving above the horizon like a ship of glory, and all the whiteness burned, and glowed, and radiated jewel-lights. James looked about with the delight of a discoverer. It might have been his first morning. He begun to meet men going to their work, swinging tin dinner-pails. Even these humble pails became glorified, they gave back the sunlight like burnished silver. He smelled the odors of breakfast upon the men's clothes. He held up his head high with a sort of good-humored arrogance as he passed. He would have fought to the death for any one of these men, but he knew himself, quite innocently, upon superior heights of education, and trained thought, and ambition. He met a man swinging a pail; he was coughing: a wretched, long rattle of a cough. James stopped him, opened his little medicine-case, and produced some pellets. "Here, take one of these every hour until the cough is relieved, my friend," said he. The man stared, swallowed a pellet, stared again, in an odd, suspicious, surly fashion, muttered something unintelligible and passed on.
After forty years of living in a cramped farmhouse, a woman reacts to the new barn her husband has built by moving the household into it while he is gone on a trip.
Half the male population of Banbridge and a goodly proportion of the female have for years wrestled for their daily bread in the City, which the little village has long echoed, more or less feebly, though still quite accurately, with its own particular little suburban note.
These little stories were written about the village people of New England. They are studies of the descendants of the Massachusetts Bay colonists, in whom can still be seen traces of those features of will and conscience, so strong as to be almost exaggerations and deformities, which characterized their ancestors . . . .
Victorian author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is most remembered today for her ghost stories, but she was a prolific and popular author in many genres: not only the supernatural, but mystery and suspense, romance, and especially contemporary fiction were her speciality. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. For this volume, we have grouped the most famous of her supernatural stories together at the beginning, then moved on to more mainstream works. I’m certain you will find something you enjoy; her interests and subject matter were broad, and her work holds up remarkably well today. Included in this volume: THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL LUELLA MILLER THE SOUTHWEST CHAMBER THE VACANT LOT THE LOST GHOST A FAR-AWAY MELODY THE LITTLE MAID AT THE DOOR A SYMPHONY IN LAVENDER THE HALL BEDROOM A GENTLE GHOST THE TWELFTH GUEST THE JADE BRACELET THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER THE PRISM THE POT OF GOLD THE COW WITH GOLDEN HORNS PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN THE CHRISTMAS MONKS THE PUMPKIN GIANT THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE DILL THE SILVER HEN TOBY THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL THE SQUIRE'S SIXPENCE A PLAIN CASE THE STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE THE BOUND GIRL DEACON THOMAS WALES'S WILL THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER TWO OLD LOVERS THE BAR LIGHT-HOUSE THE STORY OF LITTLE MARY WHITLOW A MISTAKEN CHARITY ON THE WALPOLE ROAD A HUMBLE ROMANCE A MODERN DRAGON AN HONEST SOUL A MORAL EXIGENCY A TASTE OF HONEY A GATHERER OF SIMPLES BRAKES AND WHITE VI'LETS AN OBJECT OF LOVE A SOUVENIR OLD LADY PINGREE A WAYFARING COUPLE IN BUTTERFLY TIME AN OLD ARITHMETICIAN ROBINS AND HAMMERS GENTIAN A CONFLICT ENDED THE "HORSE HOUSE" DEED AN UNWILLING GUEST CINNAMON ROSES A WANDERING SAMARITAN A LOVER OF FLOWERS A PATIENT WAITER A CONQUEST OF HUMILITY If you enjoyed this Megapack, please check out the rest of the series -- covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classic authors, and much, much more! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the whole list.
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