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| Kate Ferald falls in love with Christopher Fortune, who is part of a wealthy New England shipping family. Chistopher returns her interest but the class structure of the 19th century precludes their marriage. The story is set against the decline of the New England shipbuilding industry.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Rachel Field)
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| Henriette Desportes, the main character, was a great-aunt of Rachel Field, the author of the novel. Henriette was, at one time, the governess of the children of the Duchesse de Choiseul-Praslin and her husband, the Duc Theobald de Praslin. She later went to the United States as a French teacher and while there she married Henry Martyn Field, a minister of religion. The American Civil War and the laying of the intercontinental telegraph cable provided a backdrop to their lives together. They also became acquainted with many of the notable people of the time. The book was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer.
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| (William Mogford Hamlet)
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| W. Mogford Hamlet twice walked from Brisbane to Sydney (1907 and 1913) and in 1912 he walked from Sydney to Melbourne, covering some 750 miles (1200 km) in thirty-three days. At the time, accounts of this trips were serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald. Those accounts are now, for the first time, presented here in one volume. Hamlet presents us with the sights and sounds of the country and describes many of the towns he passed through. He also draws word pictures of some of the characters he meets along the way.
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| (Gertrude Stein)
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| This work was written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was Gertrude Stein's lover. According to Virgil Thomson, who wrote music to libretti authored by Stein, the "book is in every way except actual authorship Alice Toklas's book; it reflects her mind, her language, her private view of Gertrude, also her unique narrative powers. Every story in it is told as Alice herself had always told it...Every story that ever came into the house eventually got told in Alice's way, and this was its definitive version." [Wikipedia.]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel, 'The Waves' consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The monologues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Warwick Deeping)
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| Christopher Hazzard's mother had sacrificed everything to pay her lame son's fees during his study as a medical student, and to provide him with a weekly allowance. After becoming a doctor he was persecuted by those who considered the medical profession no place for him, and was only able to survive because of the devotion and support of his mother and his wife.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| Strange Interlude was completed in 1923, but was not produced on Broadway until 1928, when it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The plot centres on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. [Wikipedia.]
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| (Roald Amundsen)
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| On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition became the first to reach the South Pole, a month before the expedition led by Robert Scott. This is Amundsen's account of the journey, remarkable for the organised way in which it was executed.
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| (Ernest Shackleton)
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| This is an account of an attempt to make the first crossing of Antarctica, from sea to sea, by a British Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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| (Zane Grey)
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| A young woman decides to travel from Manhattan to Arizona to try to convince her finance, a veteran of the First World War who has gone to Arizona to recuperate from war injuries, to return to "civilization."
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| (Sinclair Lewis)
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| This novel, a best-seller at the time of first publication, deals with three generations of the Weagle family, who live and work in boarding houses and hotels. Two brothers of the second generation are the main focus of the story: the mercurial Ora and the plodding Myron, who dreams of running the perfect hotel.
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| (Virginia Woolf)
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| This imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and non-fiction. It traces the life of Flush from his carefree existence in the country, to his adoption by Ms. Browning and his travails in London, leading up to his final days in a bucolic Italy. Woolf uses the life of a dog as a means of social criticism, ranging across topics from feminism, and environmentalism, to class conflict. [Wikipedia]
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| (Rachel Field)
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| A best-seller when first published, this novel centres on a doctor's attempt to find a cure for deafness. In a note at the beginning of the novel, Field points out that "the place, action, and characters of this book are purely fictional. There is no Vance method of treatment to restore hearing, nor is the theory based on any actual medical findings." The book was made into a film in 1944, starring Alan Ladd and Susan Hayward.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| This story is about a woman who influences the lives of people around her in a most delightful and compelling way. It also illustrates the practical applications of the tenets of forgiveness and turning the other cheek.
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| (Lloyd C Douglas)
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| When a young surgeon accepts the blame for his mentor's mistake during surgery, he is dismissed from the hospital staff. His career in ruins, he sets out with a new identity.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| This, Cather's last novel, is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a privileged but bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, one of her young slaves, whom Sapphira has previously favoured.
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| (Elizabeth Von Arnim)
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| Fanny--Mrs. Skeffington--tries in vain to recapture her lost looks, and to assure herself, from the eyes of her former professed adorers, that to them she is still beautiful. But the assurance, even from the best of them, is no more than half-hearted. In this story, the author deals with the complex emotions of ageing and the re-evaluation of self-worth.
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| (Willa Cather)
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| The novel is written in the third person, but is mostly written from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation. [Wikipedia]
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