Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The importance of a healthy environment and sound psychology is effectively revealed through the story of how a nervous, overprotected young girl becomes a stable, self-reliant person after she is suddenly transplanted to the simple life on a Vermont farm.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1953]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
488 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rich in the lore and legend of Vermont, strong in the state's proud history, and alive with the personality of one of Vermont's greatest daughters, this book holds the soul of Vermont in its pages."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Sylvia,a young girl raised by her parents to think for herself and participate in the world of adults. As she grows up she feels conflict between her life with her parents and the town and university life that they do not conform to. When she encounters her Aunt Victoria and is drawn towards her luxurious world she further grapples with the desire for wealth and luxury and the concern for social inequity.
Author
Publisher
Academy
Pub. Date
1983, 1924
Language
English
Description
Although this novel first appared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the problems of a family in which both husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed.
9) Raw material
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
1923
Physical Desc
302 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
11) The seeking
Author
Publisher
A.A. Wyn
Pub. Date
[c1953]
Physical Desc
290 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Will Thomas had been a logger in Maine, a crew member on a fishing boat in Alaska, a prizefighter on the West Coast, a scriptwriter in Los Angeles, and a journalist in Kansas City, Chicago, and New York. In 1946 he, his wife, and three children abandoned a plan to move to Haiti to escape racial prejudice in the United States. Instead, they made the improbable decision to purchase a home in tiny Westford, Vermont, twenty miles northeast of...
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