The Saturated World
The Saturated World

Author: Beverly Gordon

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781572335424

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Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.

A Pleasant Evening
A Pleasant Evening

Author: Roberts W. Chambers

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9181081278

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»A Pleasant Evening« is a short story by Robert W. Chambers, originally published 1896 in the short story collection The Maker of Moons. ROBERT W. CHAMBERS [1865-1933] was an American author and artist. He was highly prolific, writing over 80 novels and short story collections, with the most famous being the short story collection The King in Yellow [1895].

Henry's Night
Henry's Night

Author: Linda Michelin

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 054705663X

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When Henry cannot sleep, he takes the night jar and tries to capture the song of the night bird.

A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith
A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith

Author: Stevie Smith

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811212953

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A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote delightful short prose. And here, in A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith, is the very best of it: eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric".