Sister Novelists

Sister Novelists
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 593
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ISBN-10 : 9781635575309
ISBN-13 : 1635575303
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Sister Novelists by : Devoney Looser

For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.

The Making of Jane Austen

The Making of Jane Austen
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781421422831
ISBN-13 : 1421422832
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of Jane Austen by : Devoney Looser

Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.

Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie
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Publisher : Modern Library
Total Pages : 560
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ISBN-10 : 9780679641384
ISBN-13 : 0679641386
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Sister Carrie by : Theodore Dreiser

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'

My Sister, the Serial Killer

My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780385544245
ISBN-13 : 0385544243
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis My Sister, the Serial Killer by : Oyinkan Braithwaite

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.

The Writer

The Writer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059398464
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Writer by :

The Writer

The Writer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : CHI:35384600
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Writer by : William Henry Hills

The Women Novelists

The Women Novelists
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015002254707
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Women Novelists by : Reginald Brimley Johnson

Llives of the Novelists

Llives of the Novelists
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : NLI:3503256-10
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Llives of the Novelists by : Sir Walter Scott

Lives of the Novelists

Lives of the Novelists
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101074759638
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Lives of the Novelists by : Walter Scott