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Early Stories of Dorothy Canfield
Early Stories of Dorothy Canfield - edited and with an introduction by Ida H. Washington. Long before American author Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958) won popularity and international acclaim with novels and short stories about social problems, she was writing essays and short stories in school notebooks. These early writings were never published but were kept in the archives of the University of Vermont. For scholars of American literature the early stories are important as foreshadowing of the mature author's narrative skill. For the general reader they are charming little sketches from the various environments that contributed a rich and diverse background to the experience of the mature auth...
Barbi or The Charcoal Burner's Daughter: Comic Opera in Two Acts
Barbi or The Charcoal Burner's Daughter - an Operetta in 2 Acts Libretto and Piano Score by Otto Ludwig - transcribed from the original notebooks and translated from German by Ida H. Washington is in its libretto, plot and music, a cross between a Gilbert and Sullivan musical and The Sound of Music. It abounds in clever lines and tuneful melodies, trite love scenes and dramatic encounters. Set in the Tyrol at the time of the French invasion of that area, soldiers and peasants, villain and hero play against the backdrop of a local wine festival where colorfully costumed dancers circle the stage. The operetta was written in 1838 but never published. In the two world wars the music and the libr...
Carleton's Raid
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The Farm in the Green Mountains
The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true home—thousands of miles from its homeland. Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carl’s most recent success, a play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont ...
THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated)
Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain m...
