[PDF] A Widows Tale And Other Stories eBook

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9360462039

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The novel "A Widow's Tale" was written by means of Margaret Oliphant below the name Mrs. Oliphant, who become a success Scottish author inside the 1800s. The tale is ready the main man or woman, Mrs. Catherine Vernon, who reveals herself dealing with the difficulties of being a widow. Catherine has currently lost her husband and now has to address social expectations and financial problems even as additionally coping with her grief. The book takes location in Victorian instances and looks at how tough it is to be a widow in a society that often limited girls's roles and alternatives. Mrs. Oliphant effectively weaves a story that delves into the social and emotional elements of being a widow. She gives readers a transferring and insightful take a look at one woman's adventure thru loss and adjustment. Catherine modifications as she deals along with her new fact, and the unusual gives us a hazard to observe resilience and personal growth in an extra complex way. Mrs. Oliphant's memories are regarded for the way sensitively they show how human beings feel and the way well they display how things had been in society on the time. "A Widow's Tale" is an outstanding instance of Mrs. Oliphant's writing competencies; it indicates what it become want to be a widow in Victorian England with expertise and story-telling talent.

Author : Margaret Oliphant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Widow's Tale and other stories" by Margaret Oliphant. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062082639

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Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Little Bird of Heaven, etc.) rank among the very finest in contemporary American fiction, offers an achingly personal story of love and loss. A Widow’s Story is a literary memoir on a par with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Calvin Trillin’s About Alice.

Author : Julia Glass
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307456102

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes: Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement—reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. With equal parts affection and humor, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about a man who can no longer remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or—to his great shock—the precarious joy of falling in love.

Author : Oliphant
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2013-09-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781492735977

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A Widow's Tale and Other Stories

Author : Margaret Oliphant
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2019-12-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781679341724

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Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (nee Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 - 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, and daughter of Francis Wilson. She was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian.

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1528780213

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A Widow's Tale and Other Stories was originally published in 1898. It contains an introductory biography by J. M. Barrie. Stories include: A Widow's Tale, Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond, Madamoiselle, The Lily and the Thorn, The Strange Adventures of John Percival, The Story of a Wedding-Tour, John, The Whirl of youth and The Heirs of Kellie. Margaret Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. During her career she wrote more than 120 works, including novels travelogues, histories and volumes of literary criticism. Two of her better-known fictional works are Miss Marjoribanks (1866) and Phoebe Junior (1876). Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, with a new introductory biography.

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Mrs. Oliphant, a Scottish novelist and historical writer. Excerpt: "When Mrs Brunton's bonnet with the long veil was taken off, and her long cloak, which was half covered with crape, she presented a very agreeable figure in a well-fitting dress, which indeed was black, but in no special way gloomy, and pleasantly "threw up" her light brown hair and pretty complexion."