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Summary: "Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story "The yellow wall-paper." The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman's mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 GILBond, Jenny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 BONLabor, Earle
Summary: "The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LONDON, JACK LABLystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWAGilman, Charlotte Perkins
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILMAN, CHARLOTTER PERKINS GILWright, Richard
Summary: The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial Modern Classics 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, RICHARD WRIMeaker, Marijane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA MEABair, Deirdre
Summary: "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday 2019