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.
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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.
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SHANDON WATERS by KATHLEEN NORRIS
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A tight knit community finds they have something to learn about forgiveness and kindness when a 20 year old widow brings her baby to town to visit with the one friend she has there.
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AN INDISCREET LETTER by ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
This story gives you a seat on a Halifax to Boston train circa 1915 where you will catch a very interesting conversation between a salesman of women's wear, an electrician, and a young lady, who,tired of traveling for the past 3 days, and desirous of some conversation, asks if she can join in. The subject eventually turns to the fact she has written "an indiscreet letter", which , by the terms of the times, means any letter written to a one time acquaintance that bares the soul. In her case, its not a love letter but a heartfelt request to meet the man whose voice comforted her during the...
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WHAT SHE WORE by EDNA FERBER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young man from a prairie town comes to the Big City and finds a job in a discount shoe store where works a young woman who has been working for starving wages. They become working friends to the point where , when he screws up enough courage, he advises her against wearing a deep V dress, saying that his mother back home would never allow it. Edna Ferber's excellent characterization of both makes them come alive and the story becomes a "moment in time" look back to Chicago of 1912. For more stories check out www.bestof1001stories.com.
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THE MAN OF FLESH AND BLOOD by SUSAN GLASPELL
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A man running for governor shocks his peers by giving an unsual speech at a boy's reformitory by baring his soul and admitting that he, too, as a boy and a young man, was a bad actor. He explained what he had done, and told the boys that they could turn themselves around by taking control of their actions and finding the good within their souls- that all of us have to make that struggle- some have it easy, and some have it hard to do. But winning that battle is the only true path to happiness. Then he told them they could come to him any time for support and he would be there.
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MARRYING WELL by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young bride-to-be gets a visit from her aunt along with tsome good advice about marriage.
info_outlineThe father of a college age boy receives a letter from his son announcing his engagenet to an older lady (32) and dad assumes the worst. He leaves NY for California with plans of convincing his son to call it off. He meets Miss Mix as she is working in her back yard chicken coup, believing he (Mr Fox, Anthony's dad) to be the repairman she had called. Once they get things straightened out, he begins to realoly admire her for taking his son under her wing.
Its a great story. I'm a little hoarse, my apologies.