THE AFFAIR AT GROVER STATION by WILLA CATHER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Release Date: 10/27/2024
A GOLDEN WEDDING by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young man returns from the west to catch up with his Aunt and Uncle,who raised him, and hopefully to start a business with the money he saved, only to find that they have lost their home and are now living in a poorhouse.
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LONG DISTANCE and A BUSH LEAGUE HERO EDNA FERBER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Two great short stories from Edna Ferber for your enjoyment. When you listen to her writing style you begin tom appreciate how much she says with a minimum of words- yet we know her characters and learn her story completely. Few people now recollect Edna Ferber, once a best-selling novelist. Nevertheless she numbered among her champions Somerset Maugham, who in 1948 told playwright Garson Kanin: "I admire Edna Ferber. She's a true professional." To Kanin's inquiry, "What sort of writer would you call her?", Maugham responded: "The best sort. She writes because she must, compulsively. She...
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A WEDDING GIFT by GUY de MAUPASSANT
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
In this classic story by Guy de Maupassant a young man with a troubling past marries a young French girl, and during their wedding party a note is delivered to him that requires him to leave the party immediately.
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ON THE DIVIDE by WILLA CATHER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
"On the Divide" is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It was first published in Overland Monthly in January 1896. Plot summary On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first forty years of his life in Sweden. Lena takes to teasing him and going to church with him. One day, he asks her father if he can marry her and the father says no. He then proceeds to drag Lena to his house by force, drag a priest there by force too, and get him to marry them without the girl or the girl's father's consent. Later the priest leaves and...
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DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day' Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Logan—the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans—established that May 30 should be set aside as Decoration Day, so-called from the tradition of decorating graves with flowers. More than five thousand participants gathered for the first Decoration Day in Arlington National Cemetery and lavished flowers and flags on some twenty thousand graves, and similar events took place in cemeteries all over the country. The...
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A SOCIETY by VIRGINIA WOOLF
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A group of women form a society to determine what it is that men bring to this life-so they start asking questions but find themselves getting limited answers. As a late "Gilded Age"piece of work it challenges the status quo in 1921 at the beginning of an era when women no longer were required to being 10 or 15 children into the world- that education was important- and that men really didn't seem to know it all. I think all who listen to this story will have a different take- and thats what makes it enjoyable. Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wʊlf/;[ née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March...
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A HUMBLE ROMANCE by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
The sad fact of rural life in "the gilded era" was that most folks, especially after the children were grown up and gone, werepoor and lonely, and often caring for the elders. Mary E.Wilkins (thats how she signed her books) was a good storyteller in this genre- and the people were often siomple and honest and hardworking. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com
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THE MAN WHO CAME BACK by EDNA FERBER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A man makes a vow to take care of his three sisters and life is changed
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOAN by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
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THE RAINBOW'S END by KATHLEEN NORRIS
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young actress, convalescing at the beach in the company of her doctor and his wife, is hounded by a young girl who idolizes her. An unusual series of events occur which reveal that they have more in common than they knew.
info_outlineA three way attraction leads to a murder in Wyoming and one man knows the secret of who did it and why.