The Mirth and Misery of Marriage
Author: Lib Uzzell Griffin
Publisher: Baptist Sunday School Board
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780805457339
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Author: Lib Uzzell Griffin
Publisher: Baptist Sunday School Board
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780805457339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Penelope Fritzer
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780786480647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with the 1920s and continuing through today, cover the different time periods and the foremost American domestic humorists, and the humor written by surrogate parents, grown children about their childhood families, husbands, and Canadian and English writers. Also covered are the differences among various writers toward traditional domestic roles--some, like Erma Bombeck and Judith Viorst, embraced them, while others, like Caryl Kristenson and Marilyn Kentz, resisted them. Common themes, such as the isolation and competitiveness of housework, home as an idealized metaphysical goal and ongoing physical challenge, and the urban, suburban, and rural life, are also explored.
Author: Gerald G. Griffin
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Modernista
Published: 2024-05-30
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9180949347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn late 19th-century New York, high society places great demands on a woman—she must be beautiful, wealthy, cultured, and above all, virtuous, at least on the surface. At 29, Lily Bart has had every opportunity to marry successfully within her social class, but her irresponsible lifestyle and high standards lead her further and further down the social ladder. Her gambling debts are catching up with her, and an arrangement with a friend's husband causes society to begin questioning her virtue. The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton’s sharp critique of an American upper class she viewed as morally corrupt and relentlessly materialistic. EDITH WHARTON [1862–1937], born in New York, made her debut at the age of forty but managed to write around twenty novels, nearly a hundred short stories, poetry, travelogues, and essays. Wharton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times: 1927, 1928, and 1930. For The Age of Innocence [1920], she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
Author: A. Marsh
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 177
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a curious thing, that fundamental English humour. It can be vividly concentrated into a single word, as when, for instance, the chronicler of The Ten Pleasures of Marriage revives the opprobrious term for a tailor—"pricklouse": the whole history of the English woollen industry and of the stuffy Tudor and Stuart domestic architecture is in the nickname. Or a single phrase can light up an idea, as when, a few days before marriage, "the Bridegroom is running up and down like a dog." But, on the other hand, the spirit manifests itself sometimes in exuberance, as when Urquhart and Motteux metagrobolized Rabelais into something almost more tumescent and overwhelming than the original. In that vein of humour the present work frequently runs. The author is as ready to pile up his epithets as Urquhart himself. Let the Nurse go, he says, "for then you'll have an Eater, a Stroy-good, a Stufgut, a Spoil-all, and Prittle-pratler, less than you had before."
Author: Michael G. Becker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-05
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 1317275764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and authoritative headings, and virtually all of the variant readings considered substantive in the riches of the Keats manuscript materials. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Author: Barry Gray
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 334
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Marsh
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 209
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple" by A. Marsh. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.