Elizabeth Spencer Novels Stories Loa 344

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536877
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344) written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow South 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 decades. The Voice at the Back Door (1957), greeted by The New Yorker as "a practically perfect novel" and here restored to print, portrays small-town life in Mississippi during the late Jim Crow era and the self-interest and hatred that kept injustice firmly in place. Published two years after the Emmett Till lynching, it captures the spitting vehemence of its white characters' speech and may have been proven too potentially controversial for the Pulitzer board (which awarded no prize in 1957). Also included in this volume are The Light in the Piazza (1960), Spencer's most famous work, a deftly poignant comedy about Americans abroad that was adapted to the screen by Guy Green; and a second superb Italian novella, Knights and Dragons (1965), reminiscent of Henry James's novels in its atmosphere, interiority, and concern with transplanted Americans. Spencer excelled in the short story form and this volume presents a career-spanning selection by editor Michael Gorra that ranges from the early "First Dark" (1959), a kind of ghost story about a spectral oversized house in a Southern town, to the valedictory "The Wedding Visitor" (2013), about the refusal to let the all-enveloping world of place, family, and childhood define one's adult life. Spencer's special focus was families, and few writers have so brilliantly plumbed the passions that unite them and the inner upheavals that can tear them apart.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 1981 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIRTY-THREE STORIES WRITTEN OVER A SPAN OF 40 YEARS. SPENCER HAS WON NUMEROUS AWARDS, INCLUDING TWO O. HENRY AWARDS, AND IS THE AUTHOR OF "LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA."

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617036854
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On The Gulf written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Gulf of Mexico, from New Orleans to Florida. In each, a girl or young woman gives voice to the narrative, probing and groping for a secure place and identity. The six stories included here are “On the Gulf,” “The Legacy,” “A Fugitive's Wife,” “Mr. McMillan,” “Go South in the Winter,” and “Ship Island.” Each reveals the special allure of the Gulf Coast region through the author's depiction of character and engagement with the complexities of plot. In these stories that illuminate the lives of sundry females—from insecure waifs to novice seductresses—Spencer investigates female psyche, a topic which lies at the core of much of her fiction.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496840103
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edward Tales written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi's greatest writers

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081298076X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Woman written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of top-selected works by the PEN/Malamud-winning author features pieces written throughout the past half century and includes the tales, "The Little Brown Girl," "First Dark," and "The Light in the Piazza." Reprint.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Vivisphere Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781892323774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Morning written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Vivisphere Publishing. This book was released on 1948-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of an innocent stranger sets old arguments and new passions swirling in Spencer's compelling tale of the half-forgotten integrity, the well-deep understanding of father and son, and ultimately, the eternal vision of a true home.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knights & Dragons written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disturbed American woman, living in Rome, is haunted by the spectre of her ex-husband and avoids the American colony, as she carries on discreet little affairs.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Jackson : University Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marilee written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Jackson : University Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these interrelated stories set in Mississippi, Marilee Summerall reflects on her past and comes to an understanding of her present and how she arrived there.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Place for an Angel written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of 1950's America that follows the fracturing marriage of Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer. From the oil fields of Texas to Rome and New York, it follows the Sassers and their friends and traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption.

Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780140087123
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light in the Piazza written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories describe the visit of an American woman and her daughter to Florence, a woman's efforts to recover from divorce, and a cousin's visit