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Published in 1894. Contents include: Child life -- Courtship and marriage customs -- Domestic service -- Home interiors -- Table Plenishings -- Supplies of the larder -- Old colonial drinks and drinkers -- Travel, tavern and turnpike -- Holidays and festivals -- Sports and diversions -- Books and book-makers -- "Artifices of handsomeness" -- Raiment and vesture -- Doctors and patients -- Funeral and burial customs. Cover illustration from "Young...
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Published in [1891]. Contents include: The New England Meeting-House -- The Church Militant -- By Drum and Horn and Shell -- The Old-Fashioned Pews -- Seating the Meeting -- The Tithingman and the Sleepers -- The Length of the Service -- The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House -- The Noon-House -- The Deacon's Office -- The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims -- The Bay Psalm-Book -- Sternhold and Hopkins' Version of the Psalms -- Other Old Psalm-Books --...
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In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
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A mysterious minister who never removes the black veil shrouding his face, an eccentric scientist who experiments with the fate of his friends, a cheerful tombstone carver who speaks the wisdom of the graveyard, these are but a few of the unusual New Englanders you'll meet in Twice-Told Tales.
6) Ethan Frome
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
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A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by...