Acclaimed for her 1928 novel 'A Lantern in Her Hand, ' Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published for masterpiece, 'Spring Came on Forever, ' a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich ...
Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, ...
"A western story set in a small town in Nebraska on 'the rim of the prairie.' The characters include a tantalizing heroine made more attractive by a hint of mystery, a steadfast hero, and two delightful pioneers."-Cleveland Open Shelf "Very well written. Mrs. Aldrich realizes real, living figures."-Literary Review "Exciting and realistic. A ...
""The Cutters" is well conceived and written. It is pitched in a light, pleasant key and ...comes as a welcome relief from adventure yarns and tales of mooncalf love." - "Literary Review". All unhappy families are alike, to invert Tolstoy, but each happy family is happy in its own way. Although they live in a rambling white house in a midwestern ...
'The bulk of the book is Christmas to the core. [It is] the ideal gift book' - V. P. Hass, "Chicago Sunday Tribune". 'For family reading aloud' - "Wisconsin Library Bulletin". 'For those who cherish the folksy, lamplit, teakettle-warmth of Bess Streeter Aldrich's stories, this year's gift problem is solved' - "New York Herald Tribune Book Review". ...
'A novel of home happiness, which, although it does not sentimentalize, will make many a family smile over its own humor and vicissitudes' - "Literary Review". 'A story of family life without the cloying sentimentality that usually characterizes this type of fiction' - "Saturday Review of Literature". Bess Streeter Aldrich is known for her ...
'Without literary capers, the story walks its straight road to laughter and tears and family affections and comradeship and griefs...There is nothing phony about this sentiment. It comes from the heart' - Wallace Stegner, "Saturday Review of Literature". The state of Iowa was still young and wild when Wayne Lockwood came to it from New England in ...
"A novel of...wholly fresh and convincing quality...Mrs. Aldrich, who is a good story-teller herself, has had the discretion to leave her source material substantially unaltered. In all its simple and artless detail..."The Lieutenant's Lady" bears the unmistakable stamp of truth." - "New York Times." When Linnie Colsworth came from the East to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Date Published: 1937
Description: Very Good in Very Good- jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Contents and covers are clean and tight. Jacket has minor chips and wear marks around the edges. Jacket is not clipped. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Date Published: 1940
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Contents and covers are clean and tight. Jacket has minor chips and wear marks around the edges. Small piece missing at middle of spine. Prior owner; s name sticker inside. Imprint on front fly leaf where some writing was erased. Tape marks where jacket was taped to book. Jacket is not taped now. Light ble boards. Jacket is not clipped. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peoples Book Club
Date Published: 1928
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover is scuffed and bumped, very clean. Pages clean and tight. Book shaky, cover badly rubbed spine and corners and also aging. Gutter cracked. read more
Description: Peoples Book Club, no date, book club edition, blue cloth; Hardcover, with black decoration and gilt lettering on spine, blue end papers, clean, bright and solid, VERY GOOD, in a beautiful dustjacket (a color reprint of a near VERY GOOD bright original), in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
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