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Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2024
1267 kr
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Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in eighteenth-century England. This book explores …
Voice at the Back Door
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
382 kr
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In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitably intertwined. When Lacey's fair-haired boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private …
Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Häftad, 1996
317 kr
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Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic vision.Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Her …
The Southern Woman
Selected Fiction
Häftad, 2021
219 kr
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A stunning collection of stories from “one of the foremost chroniclers of the American South” ( The Washington Post ), including the novella “Light in the Piazza”—featuring an introduction by Afia Atakora, author of Conjure Women Over the course of a fifty-year career, Elizabeth Spencer wrote …
Southern Woman
Selected Fiction
E-bok, 2012
126 kr
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Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter fiction and displays her range of place–the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after the …
Salt Line
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
365 kr
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Spencer's refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works. - Publishers WeeklyAt a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mexico. For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's …
Landscapes of the Heart
A Memoir
Häftad, 2003
352 kr
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With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi onward, a questioning spirit and voracity for reading and writing shape …
Handbook of Clinical Linguistics
Av Martin J. Ball, Martin J. Ball m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2144 kr
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The new edition of the leading reference work on Clinical Linguistics, fully updated with new research and developments in the field The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, Second Edition provides a timely and authoritative survey of this interdisciplinary field, exploring the application of …
Handbook of Clinical Linguistics
Av Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
536 kr
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The new edition of the leading reference work on Clinical Linguistics, fully updated with new research and developments in the field The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, Second Edition provides a timely and authoritative survey of this interdisciplinary field, exploring the application of …
Handbook of Clinical Linguistics
Av Elizabeth Spencer, Nicole M ller m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
2500 kr
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The new edition of the leading reference work on Clinical Linguistics, fully updated with new research and developments in the field The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, Second Edition provides a timely and authoritative survey of this interdisciplinary field, exploring the application of …
Handbook of Clinical Linguistics
Av Elizabeth Spencer, Nicole M ller m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
2421 kr
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The new edition of the leading reference work on Clinical Linguistics, fully updated with new research and developments in the field The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, Second Edition provides a timely and authoritative survey of this interdisciplinary field, exploring the application of …
Light in the Piazza
Ljudbok, 2005
164 kr
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The Light in the Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside. While sightseeing, Clara meets a good-looking young Italian man, Fabrizio, and quickly embarks on a whirlwind romance with …
Southern Woman
New and Selected Fiction
Ljudbok, 2009
524 kr
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Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most …
Edward Tales
Inbunden, 2022
1433 kr
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In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921–2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she "has thrived at the height of her powers to a degree that is unparalleled in modern letters." Over a celebrated six-decade career, …
Edward Tales
Häftad, 2022
380 kr
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In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921–2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she "has thrived at the height of her powers to a degree that is unparalleled in modern letters." Over a celebrated six-decade career, …
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344)
Av Elizabeth Spencer, Michael Gorra
E-bok, 2021
512 kr
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This Crooked Way
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta country at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store by the railroad. It was an ordinary enough …
Night Travellers
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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Elizabeth Spencer is ""a master storyteller"" (San Francisco Chronicle), her work called ""dazzling"" by Walker Percy. Whether she's writing short stories or novels, Spencer is acclaimed for holding her worlds up to light and turning them to see what they reflect. The Night Travellers, set in North …
Fire in the Morning
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable talent in this book. Published in 1948 to extraordinary attention from such eminent writers as Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Anne …
On the Gulf
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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The magnetic appeal of land, sea, and sky along the southern coast has drawn Elizabeth Spencer many times to this lush and semitropical setting. This collection brings together six of her stories set amid terrain lapped by the warm coastal currents. These stories all happen on the shoreline of the …
Snare
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey that Julia Garrett, an intelligent, attractive, but psychically driven girl, makes through the city's hidden labyrinth shapes the movement of this riveting novel. In crisscrossing the city …
No Place for an Angel – A Novel
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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At the age of ninety-three, Elizabeth Spencer is once again making news in the literary world. A master of the short story form, Spencer was awarded the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, and her latest collection Starting Over was hailed as a work of genius (New York Times Book Review). While …
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344)
The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Av Elizabeth Spencer, Michael Gorra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
470 kr
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Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her writing - three novels and nineteen stories - from a career spanning more than six …
Starting Over
Stories
Häftad, 2014
156 kr
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Since her remarkable debut in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer has transfixed readers with her uncanny ability to portray how “twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting” (Alice Munro) the ties are that bind families and marriages. Here, with nine new stories, Spencer maps “the murky territory …
Leave It At the Feet of Jesus
90-Day Devotional
Inbunden, 2025
161 kr
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An accessible and affirming devotional that invites you to take a much needed break from your busy day and meet life's challenges with grace.Leave It at the Feet of Jesus is a 90-day journey designed to bring you closer to God and His peace, strength, and wisdom in all things—from decision-making …
