The Wide, Wide WorldCosimo, 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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strangers walk as friends | 66 |
leaves us in the street | 77 |
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 |
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