A Shopgirl S Tale
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A Shopgirl S Tale
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Author : Elisa Gabrielle Donahue
language : en
Publisher: Follow It Thru
Release Date : 2019-03-25
A Shopgirl S Tale written by Elisa Gabrielle Donahue and has been published by Follow It Thru this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-25 with Fiction categories.
At 30 years old Erika Leib's personal hardships have stalled her into a mundane life of safety and security. Not that she spends much time thinking about it like that. She's underemployed at a job that probably should appreciate her more but that is hardly uncommon. She's got a halfway decent, sort of relationship with no pressure to make a larger commitment and a family who loves her. Plus she's got Rachel- her best friend, confidant, the person who's always been there for her and always will be. It's not where she thought she'd be but she's content. That all changed, however, after her chance meeting with actor, Xavier James. Soon Erika begins to re-evaluate her own worth and must decide if she's ready to rediscover the girl who once would leap without thinking or if she's prepared to stay just another shopgirl. Loaded with good food and fueled by the importance of good friendships, the book is like Sex and the City for a generation that could never afford the extravagance Carrie and Co. promised
The Gift Of The Magi The Other Tales From New York
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Author : O. Henry
language : en
Publisher: Musaicum Books
Release Date : 2017-08-07
The Gift Of The Magi The Other Tales From New York written by O. Henry and has been published by Musaicum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Fiction categories.
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: The Voice Of The City The Making Of A New Yorker A Retrieved Reformation The Cop And The Anthem The Duplicity Of Hargraves The Gift Of The Magi The Last Leaf The Ransom Of Red Chief The Skylight Room The Trimmed Lamp The Whirligig Of Life A Harlem Tragedy Biography of O. Henry The Gift of the Magi is a story about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. The Cop and the Anthem is about a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so that he can be a guest of the city jail instead of sleeping out in the cold winter. A Retrieved Reformation tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, recently freed from prison. The Duplicity of Hargraves is a short story about a nearly destitute father and daughter's trip to Washington, D.C. The Ransom of Red Chief is a short story, it follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabaman's son; eventually, the men are driven to distraction by the boy's spoiled and hyperactive behavior, and end up having to pay the boy's father to take him back. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
Shopgirls
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Author : Pamela Cox
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-06-24
Shopgirls written by Pamela Cox and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with History categories.
‘[Go] behind the glamorous shop fronts and the glitzy shop floors of Britain’s department stores... Here the hidden history is revealed.’ Saga Magazine Meet the shopgirls and hear their incredible true stories of life behind the counter. In this lively and colourful history, we join shopgirl Chili Bouchier on her journey from the small ladies’ department at Harrods to star of the silver screen, and experience the raw courage of John Lewis’ Miss Austin during the Blitz in the West End. We follow Margaret Bondfield as she goes undercover, fiercely championing the rights of her fellow shopgirls; and stand alongside the impoverished interwar chain store assistants who stole stockings to supplement their meagre wages. And we celebrate with the art school entrepreneurs who kick-started the boutique movement of the swinging ’60s and made the shop floor their own. Here, these wonderful tales of friendship, hardship and triumph are revealed as never before. For fans of nostalgic history and memoir, including Call the Midwife; Mollie Moran's Aprons and Silver Spoons; and The Sugar Girls
Shopgirl
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Author : Steve Martin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Shopgirl written by Steve Martin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with Fiction categories.
'A delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl' Richard Corliss Mirabelle Buttersfield spends her days selling expensive evening gloves in Beverly Hills' finest store, and her nights watching television and drawing darkly gothic pictures. Adrift in the world and lonely, she has few customers, so spends most of her time leaning on the counter staring into space. But then two men enter her life: Jeremy, a roadie for a band, and Mr Ray Porter, a middle-aged millionaire who invites her out to dinner. Funny, tender, and insightful, Shop Girl is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of LA's false noses and falser people - from one of our best loved comic writers.
The Gift Of The Magi And Other Tales Of New York
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Author : O. Henry
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-12-10
The Gift Of The Magi And Other Tales Of New York written by O. Henry and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-10 with Fiction categories.
This edition includes: Table of Contents: The Voice Of The City The Making Of A New Yorker A Retrieved Reformation The Cop And The Anthem The Duplicity Of Hargraves The Gift Of The Magi The Last Leaf The Ransom Of Red Chief The Skylight Room The Trimmed Lamp The Whirligig Of Life A Harlem Tragedy Biography of O. Henry The Gift of the Magi is a story about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. The Cop and the Anthem is about a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so that he can be a guest of the city jail instead of sleeping out in the cold winter. A Retrieved Reformation tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, recently freed from prison. The Duplicity of Hargraves is a short story about a nearly destitute father and daughter's trip to Washington, D.C. The Ransom of Red Chief is a short story, it follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabaman's son; eventually, the men are driven to distraction by the boy's spoiled and hyperactive behavior, and end up having to pay the boy's father to take him back. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
Shopgirl
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Author : Steve Martin
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2023-06-29
Shopgirl written by Steve Martin and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-29 with categories.
A highly acclaimed L.A. fable by one of Hollywood's greatest comics 'Is there no end to Steve Martin's talents? ... he has shown himself in recent years to be an accomplished writer, not least with this slickly written short novel... Martin's writing has real charm' THE TIMES Mirabelle works as a shop assistant in the glove department at Niemans, LA's finest store; she also draws darkly gothic pictures at night. Adrift in the world and lonely, her situation is not improved by the fact that hardly anyone buys the kind of gloves that Niemans sell, so she spends most of her day leaning on the counter staring into empty space. There are two men in her life - Jeremy, a man who stencils amplifiers for a living, and Mr Ray Porter, an older man and millionaire who applies logic to relationships, and is serially confused and disappointed. In this exquisitely self-contained novel, Steve Martin touches on the surface horrors of LA - the false noses, lips, breasts and people - without exaggeration or explicitly playing for laughs. It's insightful, dark, funny and tender.
Consuming Fantasies
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Author : Lise Sanders
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2006
Consuming Fantasies written by Lise Sanders and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
"In Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920, Lise Shapiro Sanders examines the cultural significance of the shopgirl - both historical figure and fictional heroine - from the end of Queen Victoria's reign through the First World War. As the author reveals, the shopgirl embodied the fantasies associated with a growing consumer culture: romantic adventure, upward mobility, and the acquisition of material goods. Reading novels such as George Gissing's The Odd Women and W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage as well as short stories, musical comedies, and films, Sanders argues that the London shopgirl appeared in the midst of controversies over sexual morality and the pleasures and dangers of London itself. Sanders explores the shopgirl's centrality to modern conceptions of fantasy, desire, and everyday life for working women and argues for her as a key figure in cultural and social histories of the period. This study will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Victorian and Edwardian life and literature."--BOOK JACKET.
White Collar Fictions
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Author : Christopher P. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-08-01
White Collar Fictions written by Christopher P. Wilson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In White Collar Fictions Christopher P. Wilson explores how turn-of-the-century literary representations of "white collar" Americans--the "middle" social strata H.L. Mencken dismissed as boobus Americanus--were actually part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions. An innovative study that integrates literary analysis with social-history research, the book reexamines the life and work of Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis--as well as such nearly forgotten authors as O. Henry, Edna Ferber, Robert Grant, and Elmer Rice. Between 1885 and 1925 America underwent fundamental social changes. The family business faded with the rise of the modern corporation; mid-level clerical work grew rapidly; the "white collar" ranks--sales clerks, accountants, lawyers, advertisers, "middle managers, and professionals--expanded between capital and labor. During this same period, Wilson shows, white collar characters took on greater prominence within American literature and popular culture. Magazines like the Saturday Evening Post idolized "average Americans," while writers such as Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis produced portraits of "middle America" in Winesburg, Ohio and Babbitt. By investigating the material experience and social vocabularies within white collar life itself, Wilson uncovers the ways in which writers helped create a new cultural vocabulary--"Babbittry," the "little people," the "Average American"--That served to redefine power, authority, and commonality in American society.
Pansy Meares
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Author : Horace Wykeham Can Newte
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-04-13
Pansy Meares written by Horace Wykeham Can Newte and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-13 with categories.
Excerpt from Pansy Meares: The Story of a London Shop Girl Pansy's grief would have again expressed itself in tears had not she held them back in order to see in the glass how black suited her. She had always avoided the colour as she was very dark, taking after her mother, also a West coun try woman, and of the Spanish type often to be met with in Devonshire sea-coast towns and villages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle 400 Christmas Novels Stories Poems Carols Legends
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Author : Selma Lagerlöf
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-12
Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle 400 Christmas Novels Stories Poems Carols Legends written by Selma Lagerlöf and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-12 with Fiction categories.
'Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends' stands as an unprecedented anthology that elegantly weaves together the diverse tapestries of holiday literature. Spanning centuries and embracing a multitude of literary styles – from the transformative social narratives of Charles Dickens to the intimate poetic reflections of Emily Dickinson – this collection encompasses the profound, the heartwarming, and the magical realms of Christmas. Each piece has been meticulously selected to highlight the myriad ways in which the holiday season has inspired some of the most eminent writers in history, making this compilation a treasure trove of cultural and literary significance. The anthology's vast range of offerings ensures that every reader can find a piece that resonates, be it a story that kindles warmth or a poem that reflects on the deeper meanings of the season. The contributing authors and editors, hailing from varied times and lands, bring their unique voices to a common theme – the celebration of Christmas. Their backgrounds span the gamut of the literary spectrum, from iconic figures like Shakespeare and Tolstoy, who need no introduction, to those like Beatrix Potter and Selma Lagerlöf, whose works have touched hearts in more specific but no less significant ways. This collection aligns with various historical, cultural, and literary movements, illustrating how the holiday season has been a perennial source of inspiration across ages and cultures. The anthology thereby serves as a microcosm of global literary heritage, offering insights into the universal human condition through the lens of Christmas celebrations. Scholars and casual readers alike are invited to delve into 'Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle' for an unparalleled exploration of Christmas as depicted in literature. This anthology not only promises to rekindle the joy and wonder of the holiday season but also offers a unique educational journey through the evolution of Christmas-themed writing. It is an essential addition to the libraries of those who appreciate the richness of holiday traditions and the powerful narratives that have shaped them over centuries. Within its pages lies the opportunity to engage with the works of legendary authors in a new light and to foster a deeper appreciation for the art of storytelling around the theme of Christmas.