| A Faraway Melody and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Fiction, Short Stories Contributor(s): Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598180312 ISBN-13: 9781598180312 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 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. These traces are, however, more evident among the older people; among the younger, they are dimmer and more modified. It therefore seems better worth the while to try to preserve in literature still more of this old and probably disappearing type of New England character, although it has been done with the best results by other American authors. M.E.W. Dec. 5th, 1889 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 9" (0.57 lbs) 172 pages |
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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)." |