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The Gold Brick is an ancient fiction storybook written by Ann S. Stephens. Set in a small New England village, the plot revolves around the doorway of a mysterious foreigner named Mr. Brief, who claims to have a precious gold brick. As the phrase of Mr. Brief's fortune spreads, the villagers grow to be obsessed with the idea of wealth and fulfillment, resulting in a succession of a laugh and ridiculous situations. Stephens delves into situation
...Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886) was an American novelist and magazine editor who is credited as the progenitor of the dime novel genre. She began her writing career in Portland, Maine, where she co-founded and edited the Portland Magazine. Later, in New York, she served as the editor of The Ladies Companion and adopted the pseudonym Jonathan Slick. Stephens wrote over twenty-five serial novels, along with short stories and poems for well-known
...Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.
Hergesheimer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated in a Quaker school and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Hergesheimer published his first novel, The Lay Anthony, in 1914. Three Black Pennys, which followed in 1917, chronicled the fictional
...Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; 1819-1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World.
Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town.
Warner and her sister, Anna, wrote a series of semi-religious
...Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; 1819-1885), was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World.
Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town.
Warner and her sister, Anna, wrote a series of semi-religious
...Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.
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...Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate—or undermine—romance and happy endings?
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey journeys through the iconic novelist's books in the first full-length study of Austen's
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