The Wide, Wide World

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Cosimo, Inc., 1.09.2005 г. - 592 страници
Ellen had plenty of faults, but amidst them all love to her mother was the strongest feeling her heart knew. It had power enough now to move her as nothing else could have done; and exerting all her self-command, of which she had sometimes a good deal, she did calm herself...-from The Wide, Wide WorldIt was the first bestseller in American publishing history, this sentimental tale of an orphan's adventures alone in the world. Both hailed as a girl's-eye Huckleberry Finn and derided as misogynistic melodrama, its origins are strikingly simple and, in some ways, uniquely feminist: author Susan Warner wrote out of financial desperation only to find fabulous success, like many other women writers even to this today, J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter) being perhaps the most prominent contemporary example.Published under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Wetherell" in 1850, this is the tale of Ellen Montgomery, driven from her home and separated from her beloved mother only to journey through the wide world, where she suffers, submits, and is made pure. Modern eyes will see the story through many lenses, but to read the book today is to gain an extraordinary understanding of the mindset of the ordinary American of the mid 18th century, who heartily embraced the book.American novelist SUSAN BOGERT WARNER (1819-1885) was born in New York City, and lived there all her life. Among her numerous other books for children and adults are Queechy (1852), The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856), Melbourne House (1864), and Mr. Rutherford's Children (1853-55), the last written in collaboration with her sister, Anna Bartlett Warner.
 

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SXVIII SCRAPS OF MOROCCO AND TALK 2Q0 XXIX STOCKINGS TO WHICH THE BA8 BLEU WAS NOTHING
300
SUNDAY AT VENTNOR
308
FLOWERS AND THORNS
317
XXXII THE BANKNOTE AND GEORGE WASHINGTON
329
A OATHERINO CLOUD IN THE SPRING WEATHER
337
THE CLOUD OVERHEAD
345
THIS WORKINGDAY WORLD
357
XXXVI THE BROWNIE
374

the little queen in the armchair
96
mod and what came of it
108
running awav with thf brook
115
splitter
125
hope deferred
132
WORK not DEFERRED 130
147
COUNSEL CAKES AND CAPTAIN PARRY
158
DIFFICULTY OF DOING RIGHT
172
LOSES CARE ON THE CATS BACK
183
XIX SHOWING THAT IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES WHITE IS BLACK
196
FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS
218
HOW MISS FORTUNE WENT OUT AND PLEASURE CAME IN
239
SWEEPING AND DUSTING
246
rt Contents CHAP MM
267
THE JINGLING OF SLEIGHBELLS
281
SHOWING WHAT A NOISE A BEE CAN MAKE WHEN IT GETS INTO THE HOUSE 255
285
TIMOTHY AND HIS MASTER
383
XXXVIH WHEREIN THE BLACK PRINCE ARRIVES OPPORTUNELY 305
419
THE CLOUDS RETURN AFTER THE RAIN
428
ONE LESS IN THE WIDE WIDE WORLD
438
THOSE THAT WERE LEFT
448
XLTV THE LITTLE SPIRIT THAT HAUNTED THE BIG HOUSE
458
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
473
SOMETHING TURNS UP
475
XLVU THE WIDE WORLD GROWN WIDER
502
XLVHL HOW OLD FRIENDS WERE INVESTED WITH THE RBGALIA
515
THOUGHT IS FBEE
531
TRIALS WITHOUT
542
JUT TRIALS WITHIN
552
in tbouI
561
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