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One Hundred Years Of Marriage
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Author : Louise Farmer Smith
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-04-01
One Hundred Years Of Marriage written by Louise Farmer Smith and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with Fiction categories.
"The House After It was Leveled," the first story of this novel in stories, opens in Chisom, Oklahoma, in 1960 with Alice Brady, wife, mother, and good Methodist, collapsed under the weight of a severe depression. A lifetime of silence and suppressed anger has finally overcome this strong woman. This story is told from the point of view of Alice's nineteen-year-old daughter, Patricia, who has to piece together evidence from family lore and overheard conversations to understand why her parents, the short-fused Cecil Brady, and the conflict-phobic Alice, chose each other. At the end of this first story Patricia's twelve-year-old brother, Ernest, asks her to explain their parents' marriage. Ernest's question begins the pattern of this book which doesn't provoke the reader to ask what happens next so much as to ask, what happened in the past that overcame all good sense to influence the marriage decisions of the women in this family. Alice Brady's choice of a mate is dramatized in the next story," Woodpecker," set in Depression ravaged Oklahoma where Alice and Cecil, both college students working to help their financially strapped parents, meet and fall in love. In spite of her crushing disappointment in Cecil Brady, the result of a dinner with his graceless family, Alice sees him as a much better catch than her gentle, poetic, useless father. Alice's parents' marriage is illuminated in the third story, "The Investment in Lillian Gish," in which poverty calls for heart-breaking sacrifices not only from the parents, Victoria and Dan, but from eight-year-old Alice herself. Alice's mother Victoria had a choice of suitors, but, having lived under the weighty cloud of her own mother's hurried death, Victoria remains true to her mother's advice to "choose a man who will talk with you." She chose Dan, a well-read and affable man who was unable to support his family but who possessed the gentleness her own boorish and brutal father lacked. But why was Dan unwilling to teach school, the work for which he was educated? In the fourth story, "Return to Lincoln," Dan, an eleven-year-old only child, pioneering with his parents in Oklahoma Territory, discovers his manic-depressive, Quaker mother attempting to hang herself. These are Patricia's great grandparents on her grandfather's side, and the horror of young Dan's experience in witnessing his father chain up his mother for the long wagon journey back to an asylum in Nebraska, has rained down the generations. Patricia's great grandparents on her grandmother's side married in North Carolina in 1870 in the desperate aftermath of the Civil War. In "The Luckiest Little Thing in the World," Victoria tells the story of how her father, Gilbert, rescued her mother, a sixteen year old orphan. Gilbert, a high-roller, who is buying up the land of impoverished planters, marries the pretty girl and stops at nothing to ascend into Ashville society. In the last story, "The Dress," Patricia returns in 1970 to her hometown for her own wedding to a sweet jazz musician, who is very unlike her angry father, Cecil, and a little reminiscent in his careless lack of ambition of her grandfather, Dan. Soon after arriving at the church, Patricia realizes that she has left her wedding dress back at her parents' house. The arrival of a her beautiful younger sister, heavily made up to cover a black eye, accelerates Patricia's letting go of denial about her family. With a loving hand her mother hurries to prepare her for the ceremony. Her father, wearing his dress uniform, waits at the sanctuary door to see her down the aisle. The pressure to go through with the ceremony mounts as she faces the subconscious but determining forces that have compelled the marriage choices in her family.
One Hundred Years Of Marriage
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Author : Louise Farmer Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
One Hundred Years Of Marriage written by Louise Farmer Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE by LOUISE FARMER SMITH "Note To Reader: What was your father thinking the night he proposed to your mother? Why did she say yes? By the time we ask, all the compelling details have cooled into whatever myths they've chosen to tell us. Our grandparents' stories are even more frozen, and the truths of our great-grandparents' unions have perished in the airless memories of the dead." In a series of interlocked stories Louise Farmer Smith, the author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE, pierces the myths through four generations of one American family's mismatched marriages-the teenage girl lifted out of the hunger and chaos that followed the Civil War; the suicidal wife isolated on the Oklahoma prairie; the struggling milliner bound to a cheerful husband whose improvidence is destroying the family. Dark? Yes, but full of humor too. Each of the six stories is told from the point of view of the child who observes his or her parent's marriage and tries with only a child's insufficient experience to interpret the veiled mysteries of their union. The novel moves backward in time to search out the influences on each generation's children-the standards, prejudices, and overheard conversations that they carry with them when they choose a spouse. With a Family Tree for the reader to refer to, Smith embeds a deep sense of family relationship throughout the generational stories while drawing each character as a vivid, unique individual. The mother in each new story is aware of the stories of her grandmother, usually in a mythologized form. Victoria, whose husband fed them only by selling off pieces of the beloved family homestead, causing her infinite suffering, is mythologized in future generations as the exemplary loving wife who stood by her man and not as the victim that another, truer history would make her. Victoria's own mother died, leaving her to be raised by a cold, remote, and stingy businessman who ultimately drove her into the arms of his opposite-the warm but hapless and improvident man. Why do women marry as they do? Louise Farmer Smith tells stories of marriages women make for survival, for emotional fulfillment, to satisfy a sense of duty or social expectation. All the women in this book marry with secrets and sacrifices at the hearts of their unions, bidding the reader to wonder about the nature of love and marriage. As one reader asked, "What about the role of women in marriage? Has the institution of marriage changed? If so, how? Do the readers think that these women acted as the products of their times, or in a universal way?" ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE can also be read as a pre-history of the women's movement and as a substantial addition to the social history of American women. Thoroughly researched stories compellingly paint daily life for Great Plains pioneers, for turn-of-the-century women fearing spinsterhood, and for wives in 40s, living in a feminine world the men have left for faraway war.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
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Author : Gabriel García Márquez
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-11
One Hundred Years Of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Fiction categories.
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
One Hundred Years History Of The Chinese In Singapore The Annotated Edition
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Author : Ong Siang Song
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2020-03-12
One Hundred Years History Of The Chinese In Singapore The Annotated Edition written by Ong Siang Song and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with History categories.
Since its publication in 1923, Sir Song Ong Siang's One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore has become the standard biographical reference of prominent Chinese in early Singapore, at least in the English language. This fact would have surprised Song who saw himself primarily as a compiler of historical and biographical snippets. The original was not referenced in academic fashion and contained a number of errors. This annotation by the Singapore Heritage Society takes Song's classic text and updates it with detailed annotations of sources that Song himself might have consulted, and includes more recent scholarship on the lives and times of various personalities who are mentioned in the original book. This annotated edition is commissioned by the National Library Board, Singapore and co-published with World Scientific Publishing.
How To Live One Hundred Years The Secret Of Long Life Every Man His Own Doctor
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Author : Eugène Becklard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860*
How To Live One Hundred Years The Secret Of Long Life Every Man His Own Doctor written by Eugène Becklard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860* with Contraception categories.
One Hundred Years Of Kibbutz Life
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Author : Michal Palgi
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2014-01-31
One Hundred Years Of Kibbutz Life written by Michal Palgi and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-31 with Social Science categories.
One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life shows that the kibbutz thrives and describes changes that have occurred within Israel’s kibbutz community. The kibbutz population has increased in terms of demography and capital, a point frequently overlooked in debates regarding viability. Like the kibbutz founders who established a society grounded in certain principles and meeting certain goals, kibbutz newcomers seek to build an idealistic society with specific social and economic arrangements. The years 1909-2009 marked a century of kibbutz life—one hundred years of achievements, challenges, and creative changes. The impact of kibbutzim on Israeli society has been substantial but is now waning. While kibbutzim have become less relevant in Israeli policy and politics, they are increasingly engaged in questions of environmentalism, education, and profitable industries. Contributors discuss the hopes, goals, frustrations, and disappointments of the kibbutz movement. They also examine reform efforts intended to revitalize the institution and reinforce fading kibbutz ideals. Such solutions are not always popular among kibbutz members, but they demonstrate that the kibbutz is an adaptive and flexible social organization. The various studies presented in this book clarify the dynamism of the kibbutz institution and raises questions about the ways in which residential arrangements throughout the world manage change.
One Hundred Years Of Marriage And Divorce Statistics United States 1867 1967
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Author : National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
One Hundred Years Of Marriage And Divorce Statistics United States 1867 1967 written by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Roger Hooper And The Sheriff Hoopers Island S First One Hundred Years
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Author : Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-05-09
Roger Hooper And The Sheriff Hoopers Island S First One Hundred Years written by Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-09 with History categories.
History of the first 100 years of the settlement of Hoopers Island in Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Based on an event from January 1753, reported in the records of the Maryland Assembly, in which the sheriff charges tobacco planter Roger Hooper with unpaid quit-rents and threatens to seize two of Hooper's slaves. On a small scale, ROGER HOOPER AND THE SHERIFF is the story of one colonial tidewater family who settled on an island on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. On a larger canvas, through the story of this family, one can learn about the development of colonial Maryland--the difficulties the pioneers experienced, their relationship to the Indians, the importance of tobacco, the change to slave labor, the deterioriation of religious toleration, the role of women, and, finally, the economic changes that eventually isolated one side of the Bay from the other.
I Do And I Don T
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Author : Jeanine Basinger
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-01-29
I Do And I Don T written by Jeanine Basinger and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Performing Arts categories.
From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves. As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them—perhaps because, unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it. Here is “happily ever after”—except when things aren't happy, and when “ever after” is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy . . . or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies—and audiences—work, Jeanine Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with this tricky subject, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from Tracy and Hepburn to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one) to Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights. A treasure trove of insight and sympathy, illustrated with scores of wonderfully telling movie stills, posters, and ads.
About One Hundred Years Of Sinking
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Author : H.L. Phoenix
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix Nest
Release Date : 2023-10-05
About One Hundred Years Of Sinking written by H.L. Phoenix and has been published by Phoenix Nest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Fiction categories.
This is a manual introducing the One Hundred Years of Sinking trilogy, about the causes and process of writing, the past and present lives of the author, as well as the serialization of some chapters. It comes with an audiobook of the same name that lasts about three hours. One Hundred Years of Sinking is a trilogy of chronicled historical novels, six books in total, based on historical events in China during the 20th century and the personal experiences of the author's family members. The time spans a hundred years, the space spans across China, and finally across America and Canada. It is a romance and a history. It is also a journey of Chinese women's growth in the 20th century. Contents of this book: INTRODUCTION Looking Back On My Way @ Chungking @ Chengtu @ Shanghai Origin: The Two Counties Northern Poems & Southern Songs Chinese-English Translation Notes PROLOGUE - Memorial 01. Forced Marriage 02. Unexpected Visitor 03. Unwilling Fiancé 04. Childish Poet 05. Lonely Branch 06. The Nanny 07. The Victim 08. The Campus 09. Swallow Garden 10. The Bride 11. Evenly Matched Families 12. The Dowry 13. Bid Farewell 14. First Glance 15. Bridal Chamber 16. Face To Face 17. Wedding Night 18. Affection 19. What A Beautiful Lady 20. Grand Banquet 21. The Property 22. Daughter In Law 23. Meaning of Marriage 24. Hibiscus