| Description |
1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Contents |
Looking after Clara : August 1914 -- The manager of Crystal Sulphur Springs : July 1915 -- Unveiling Brenda : June 1916 -- A jury of her peers : March 1917 -- A matter of gesture : August 1917 -- Poor Ed : March 1918 -- Beloved husband : April 1918 -- The busy duck : November 1918 -- Pollen : March 1919 -- Government goat : April 1919 -- The nervous pig : February 1920 -- A rose in the sand : May 1927 |
| Summary |
One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) produced fourteen ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and more than fifty short stories. Her work was popular and critically acclaimed during her lifetime, with her novels appearing on best-seller lists and her stories published in major magazines and in The Best American Short Stories. Many of her short works display her remarkable abilities as a humorist, satirizing cultural conventions and the narrowness of small-town life. And yet they also evoke serious questions - relevant as much today as durin |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- 20th century
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FICTION -- General.
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Short stories, American
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Short stories.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bryan, Patricia L., 1951-
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Carpentier, Martha Celeste.
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| ISBN |
9781587299247 |
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1587299240 |
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