The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954 - Couverture rigide

Aldrich, Bess Streeter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803210523 ISBN 13 : 9780803210523

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1999

Synopsis

During the first half of the twentieth century, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most highly paid and widely read American authors of her time. Among the most noteworthy of frontier writers, Aldrich published her short work in such leading magazines as "Cosmopolitan", "Colliers", "The Ladies Home Journal", "Good Housekeeping", and "The Saturday Evening Post". Her most famous novel, "A Lantern in Her Hand", has remained a favorite since it was first published in 1928. All of her subsequent novels were also bestsellers. Aldrich's portrayals of pioneers, farm people, and small town traders - their spirit and enterprise - won the admiration of the nation. Unlike such contemporaries as Sinclair Lewis and Hamlin Garland, Aldrich saw the better side of Main Street. Honesty, hard work, friendship, and family life are constant themes in her writings. This second volume of "The Collected Short Works" brings together over thirty of Aldrich's short stories and essays published between 1920 and 1954, the year of her death. With this collection Aldrich's admirers have ready access to many hard-to-find works. Some of the stories appear here for the first time since their original publication. Carol Miles Petersen formerly taught at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of "Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real" (Nebraska 1995) and the editor of Aldrich's "Collected Short Works, 1907-1919" (Nebraska 1995).

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the first half of the twentieth century Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of America's best loved, most widely read, and highly paid writers. Her short works appeared in such major journals as "Ladies Home Journal", "Harper's Weekly", "The American Magazine", "Colliers", "McCalls", and "The Saturday Evening Post". Her most famous novel, "A Lantern in Her Hand", has remained a favourite since first published in 1928. Her portrayals of pioneers, farm people, small-town residents, their activities, and their relationship with their surroundings won the admiration of the nation. Honest romance, marital concord, and parental love were her constant themes. She was much more concerned with what kept people together than with what drove them apart. Widowed in 1925 with four children who relied on her for support, Aldrich knew all too well the tensions between motherhood and working for pay. "Collected Short Works" contains twenty-six works written for publication between 1907 and 1919. Aldrich's admirers now have ready access to works that long ago were relegated to archives and library stacks. Scholars will appreciate how much of herself Aldrich invested in her fiction and how well she appreciated the changes occurring around her. Carol Miles Petersen is the author of a forthcoming biography of Aldrich, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. She formerly taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803210523
• ISBN 13: 9780803210523
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 321
• Éditeur: Peterson Carol Miles
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