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Collected Stories Of Jessamyn West
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Author : Jessamyn West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-12-01
Collected Stories Of Jessamyn West written by Jessamyn West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12-01 with categories.
Collected Stories Of Jessamyn West
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Author : Jessamyn West
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 1987
Collected Stories Of Jessamyn West written by Jessamyn West and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Fiction categories.
In thirty-six stories, West rings changes in time and presents a startling sweep of personalities and moods. Her themes span the breadth of experience, from the bite of misery to the balm of delight. Her achievement, taken totally, is a spectrum of living-a haunting, rewarding experience.
Jessamyn West Revised Edition
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Author : Alfred S. Shivers
language : en
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Jessamyn West Revised Edition written by Alfred S. Shivers and has been published by Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Mary Jessamyn West was born in 1902 to an Indiana Quaker family who moved to the ranch and orchard land of southern California when she was six. As a mature writer, West would return again and again to these simple facts of her youth. Quakerism, the settling of the Midwest as told to her in stories by her mother, and the domestication of the southwestern frontier became the dominant milieus of her fiction, a fiction distinguished by its detailed, authentic conveyance of the homesteading landscape and of the folkways and language of the people that inhabited it." "In Jessamyn West, Revised Edition, Alfred S. Shivers chronicles West's complete works, from her first, well-received story collection about the lives of a midwestern Quaker couple, The Friendly Persuasion (1948), to her last, the posthumously published Collected Stories of Jessamyn West (1986). Eight West books have been published since Shivers's first treatment of the author, Jessamyn West, appeared in 1974; all are discussed in this revised edition." "The author of seven novels, several short-story collections, a volume of poetry, and two memoirs, West kept private notebooks and journals since she was a child. But she began to write seriously only after a debilitating bout with tuberculosis and a long period of recovery and reflection. West contracted tuberculosis at 29, and in its early stages the disease threatened her life. Among the persistent themes in her work is that of understanding and illumination brought about by intimacy with death." "West also wrote frankly about sexuality, a trait the reviewers of her day often found surprising - and sometimes disturbing - in a female, Quaker writer. With great respect for psychological realism and in a polished, often sensuous, style, her fiction explores variously the awakening of sexuality in adolescence, the destructive consequences of self-denial and sexual repression, and the sexual loneliness of middle-aged women." "It is, however, the carefully crafted backdrop against which these themes are played out for which West remains best known and most admired, particularly that of American Quakers from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. No other writer, Shivers argues, has recorded their way of life as faithfully, humanly, and entertainingly as Jessamyn West." "Ironically, as successful as West was in depicting Quaker ways in her fiction, she wanted neither her life nor her art to be restricted by traditional Quaker concerns for modesty and propriety. West enjoyed shocking people, for instance, by telling them she had once slept with former president Richard Milhous Nixon - a second cousin who, as a baby, had slept on the same bed with West, then a little girl. Struggling against her Quaker upbringing, Shivers writes, West tried to overcome "the tendency to be agreeable or good at the expense of being truthful, to be polite at the expense of being vivid, to be pretty at the expense of being honest." What Jessamyn West wanted least was to be known as "that sweet little old Quaker lady.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Research Collection On Jessamyn West
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Author : Alfred S. Shivers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Research Collection On Jessamyn West written by Alfred S. Shivers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with categories.
Correspondence, notes, and clippings pertaining to the life and works of Jessamyn West, poet, novelist, and short story writer. Copies of many of West's works are included. The materials were collected by Shivers in preparation for writing his critical biography, Jessamyn West (1972).
The Friendly Persuasion
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Author : Jessamyn West
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 2003-08-11
The Friendly Persuasion written by Jessamyn West and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-11 with Fiction categories.
Jess Birdwell, a Quaker with a fondness for fast horses, his wife Eliza, and their children struggle to deal with the turmoil, violence, and challenges of the Civil War in their own way. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
Cress Delahanty
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Author : Jessamyn West
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Cress Delahanty written by Jessamyn West and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-27 with History categories.
The tenderly funny story of a modern girl’s growing up. Cress Delahanty, growing up on a California ranch, might have been you at sixteen, your teenage daughter or niece, or the girl next door. You will watch her progress, as her parents did, with amusement and an occasional touch of exasperation and a twinge of heartache at the memory of your own growing pains. She’s the girl who invented Delahanty’s Law for Saving Time. The high-school kid who decided craziness would be her trademark. The love-smitten adolescent who found a unique way to attract the boys. Not since Penrod—that classic by another Indiana author—has the magic, the humor and the seriousness of adolescence been so warmly and sympathetically portrayed in an American novel. “An enchanting novel...those still capable of feeling the absurdity and the beauty of growing up will find it a book well worth treasuring in that library of libraries, the heart.”—CLIFTON FADIMAN, The book-of-the-Month Club News “Cress Delahanty has all the makings of a classic.”—Hartford Courant “An extraordinarily engaging, humorous and touching book about a teenage girl.”—The New York Times “It does for an adolescent girl what Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye did for her male counterpart.”—Los Angeles Mirror
Jessamyn West
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Author : Ann Dahlstrom Farmer
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Author Bibliographie
Release Date : 1998
Jessamyn West written by Ann Dahlstrom Farmer and has been published by Scarecrow Author Bibliographie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Describes the known work by and about Jessamyn West (1902- 1984). Includes full bibliographic descriptions of all of the editions of West's 27 separate publications, plot summaries, correspondence, critical interpretations, and works based on West's primary works. Much of the book covers West's unpublished materials which are primarily archived at Whittier College. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jessamyn West
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language : en
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Features a biographical sketch of the American author Jessamyn West (1903-1984). Highlights her novels and short stories, such as "The Friendly Persuasion," "Except for Me and Thee," and "Cress Delahanty." Includes a selected bibliography of her works.
Adventures In Reading
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Author : Evann Lodge, Marjorie Braymer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Adventures In Reading written by Evann Lodge, Marjorie Braymer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Alfred S Shivers Research Collection On Jessamyn West
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Alfred S Shivers Research Collection On Jessamyn West written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Authors categories.
This collection consists of correspondence to, from, and about Jessamyn West; galley proofs of two major works; a photocopy of West's writing note book and her mother's notebook and letter ; photocopy and printed copies of poems, short stories, and articles by West; biographical and genealogical materials on West; biographical materials on Shivers; and a letter from Richard M. Nixon to Dr. Shivers.