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(0)Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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The story of Sylvia,a young girl raised by her parents to think for herself and participate in the world of adults. As she grows up she feels conflict between her life with her parents and the town and university life that they do not conform to. When she encounters her Aunt Victoria and is drawn towards her luxurious world she further grapples with the desire for wealth and luxury and the concern for social inequity.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The importance of a healthy environment and sound psychology is effectively revealed through the story of how a nervous, overprotected young girl becomes a stable, self-reliant person after she is suddenly transplanted to the simple life on a Vermont farm.
10) The home-maker
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Although this novel first appared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the problems of a family in which both husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed.
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[1972, c1934]
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Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
