Collections of the South Carolina Historical Society
Author | : South Carolina Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Author | : South Carolina Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Author | : Toni Morrison |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030737307X |
A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Author | : Maine Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Maine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maine Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Local history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Sunday-School Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Christian education of children |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joan Silber |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2005-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393070727 |
Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.