| The Heart's Highway - A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Fiction Contributor(s): Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247210 ISBN-13: 9781592247219 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This is a story of a torrid romance in Virginia in the 17th century. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: . . . suddenly a great black stallion on a morning gallop burst with a speed like a storm -- One step more and his iron hoofs would have crushed the girl. But I was first. I flung myself upon her and threw her like a feather to one side, and that was the last I knew for a while. When I knew myself again there was a mighty pain in my shoulder, which seemed to be the center of my whole existence by reason of it, and there was the feel of baby kisses on my lips. . . . I felt her soft lips on mine, and, looking, saw that baby face all clouded about with gold, and I loved her forever. |
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)." |