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Hardcover:
9780745189154 | Largeprint edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1997), cover price $55.01
9780783819945 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 1997), cover price $22.95
9780899668536, titled "Bridge of San Luis Rey" | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
9780809590650 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $29.00
9780443038891, titled "Surgical Disorders of the Shoulder" | Churchill Livingstone, September 1, 1990, cover price $230.00 | also contains Surgical Disorders of the Shoulder
3 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
Paperback:
9780766194403 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2005, cover price $26.95
9780060088873 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2003, cover price $12.99
9780060929862 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 1998), cover price $11.00 | also contains Unveiling Kate Chopin | About this edition: When an Incan bridge collapses, killing five Peruvian travelers, a Franciscan friar researches the victims' life histories
9780745189161 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1997), cover price $55.01
9780060913410 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1986), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A Franciscan monk's investigation into the collapse of a Peruvian bridge probes the private lives of the victims
2 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
CD/Spoken Word:
9781565119376 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, January 13, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781565112216 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When a rope bridge near Lima, Peru breaks in 1714, a Franciscan who witnesses the accident feels compelled to learn about the lives of the five people who were killed.
Reinforced:
9780606312714, titled "Bridge Of San Luis Rey" | Demco Media, August 26, 2004, cover price $21.20 | About this edition: When a rope bridge near Lima, Peru breaks in 1714, a Franciscan who witnesses the accident feels compelled to learn about the lives of the five people who were killed.
9780606004237 | Demco Media, June 1, 1986, cover price $19.67 | About this edition: A Franciscan monk's investigation into the collapse of a Peruvian bridge probes the private lives of the victims
Prebinding:
9780613686525, titled "Bridge of San Luis Rey" | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $24.50
9780808576242 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.05 | About this edition: When an Incan bridge collapses, killing five Peruvian travelers, a Franciscan friar researches the victims' life histories
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Hardcover:
9780313320460 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2002, cover price $84.00
Product Description: The works of Louisiana authors differ from the works of other Southern writers in significant ways. Strong French, Spanish, Native American, and African American traditions shaped Louisiana culture, and Louisiana writers reflect that cultural diversity in their works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780313313660 | Praeger Pub Text, March 1, 2001, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: The works of Louisiana authors differ from the works of other Southern writers in significant ways.
This is the true, unvarnished life story of the girl who grew up to write The Awakening, a masterpiece published 100 years ago. With its portrayal of a woman whose sexual desires take her outside marriage, it rocked American literatureâs cozy conception of womanhood.In Unveiling Kate Chopin Emily Toth, the foremost authority on Chopinâs life and works, creates a sharply revealing portrait of a modern woman in a Victorian world. Born in St. Louis in 1850, Kate OâFlaherty was raised by wealthy, feisty widows and educated by brilliant nuns. She endured a mysterious âoutrageâ committed against her by Union soldiers in her teens and suffered what moderns now call a âloss of voice.â But she survived to become a lively, dangerously clever social observer.She had the talent and then the life experiences to become a writer. Her Louisiana-born husband, Oscar Chopin, had grown up in France and did not restrict her. In New Orleans (where she gossiped with the painter Edgar Degas) and then in rural Louisiana (where the neighbors hated her), Kate produced six children in nine years. Yet she retained her individuality and her wicked sense of humor. After her husbandâs sudden death, Kateâs affair with another womanâs husband was a village scandalâbut following the lessons of the French women who raised her, she knew when to leave.After the death of her mother, Kate reinvented herself as the author of engaging short stories set in Louisiana. Many had unusual social messages. âIn Sabineâ opposed domestic violence. âAt the âCadian Ballâ supported sexual expression for women. âOdalie Misses Massâ suggested that interracial friendships between African American and white women were possible. She condemned the idle rich and celebrated single mothers. To promote her own career, she created the first salon in St. Louis and became the first woman in the city to become a professional fiction writer. Although she claimed to be un-serious about her craft, newly discovered manuscripts, which Toth mines for the insights they offer, reveal her as a dedicated artist who wanted to reach her readersâ hearts.Toth portrays Chopin as a bright, ambitious woman who ruffled staid souls, and when she published The Awakening, her foes pounced. Many reviews of the novel were uncomprehending; many were vicious and her next book was canceled. Her family suffered; her health declined; and Chopin died in 1904, silenced ahead of her time. Now, a century later, Toth sees Chopin as a woman of unique wit and astonishing talent and as the daring author who wrote the most radical, notorious American novel of the late nineteenth century.
Hardcover:
9781578061013 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This is the true, unvarnished life story of the girl who grew up to write The Awakening, a masterpiece published 100 years ago.
Paperback:
9781578061020 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
9780060929862, titled "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 1998), cover price $11.00 | also contains The Bridge of San Luis Rey | About this edition: When an Incan bridge collapses, killing five Peruvian travelers, a Franciscan friar researches the victims' life histories
Hardcover:
9780807117439 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $47.50
Hardcover:
9780940984653 | Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, February 1, 1991, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: "excellent penmanship .
Hardcover:
9780813911694 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Examines how three Southern writers drew parallels between sexism and racism
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