The Plum Tree - Couverture souple

Phillips, David Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1417927453 ISBN 13 : 9781417927456

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

The Plum Tree by David Graham Phillips is a historical fiction novel set in the early 20th century. The story follows the life of a young woman named Laura, who comes from a wealthy family in New York City. Laura falls in love with a German immigrant named Karl, but their relationship is tested when World War I breaks out and Karl is forced to return to Germany to fight for his country.As the war rages on, Laura must navigate the challenges of living in a country at war, while also dealing with the loss of loved ones and the changing social norms of the time. The novel explores themes of love, loss, and the impact of war on individuals and society.Through Laura's experiences, the reader is transported to a different time and place, and gains insight into the complexities of life during World War I. The Plum Tree is a beautifully written and engaging novel that will appeal to fans of historical fiction and those interested in exploring the human experience during times of war.1905. American writer, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati and New York City, rising to editorial rank on the New York World, for which he wrote until 1902. He became noted as a muckraker and was famous as the author of a series of sensational articles exposing corruption in the U.S. Senate that appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. Phillips's novels, powerful although often crude, deal with corruptive influences in society and general social problems, such as the status of women. He came to an untimely death when he was murdered by a young musician who accused him of having cast literary slurs on his family. The Plum Tree begins: We can hold out six months longer, -at least six months. My mother's tone made the six months stretch encouragingly into six long years. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work

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"We can hold out six months longer,—at least six months." My mother's tone made the six months stretch encouragingly into six long years. I see her now, vividly as if it were only yesterday. We were at our scant breakfast, I as blue as was ever even twenty-five, she brave and confident. And hers was no mere pretense to reassure me, no cheerless optimism of ignorance, but the through-and-through courage and strength of those who flinch for no bogey that life or death can conjure. Her tone lifted me; I glanced at her, and what shone from her eyes set me on my feet, face to the foe. The table-cloth was darned in many places, but so skilfully that you could have looked closely without detecting it. Not a lump of sugar, not a slice of bread, went to waste in that house; yet even I had to think twice to realize that we were poor, desperately poor. She did not hide our poverty; she beautified it, she dignified it into Spartan simplicity. I know it is not the glamour over the past that makes me believe there are no women now like those of the race to which she belonged. The world, to-day, yields comfort too easily to the capable; hardship is the only mould for such character, and in those days, in this middle-western country, even the capable were not strangers to hardship.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1417927453
• ISBN 13: 9781417927456
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Ashe E. M.
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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