| The Copy Cat and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories Contributor(s): Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592245285 ISBN-13: 9781592245284 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Ghost |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.11 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: MARY E. WILKINS-FREEMAN (1852-1930) was best known in her own day as a regional writer, for her stories depicting the bleak life of the New England rural populace of her day. Her best collections in his mode are A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). She is probably better remembered today for her ghost stories, first collected in The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903), which likewise makes use of deftly-observed regional detail. This collection includes her best-known story, "The Shadows On the Wall," which H.P. Lovecraft praised for its "consummate skill" in the depiction of "a staid New England household to uncanny tragedy." |
Contributor Bio(s): Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: - "Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. Her career as a short story writer launched in 1881 when she took first place in a short story contest with her submission "The Ghost Family." When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. 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 and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894) and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908)." |