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Josiah’s Secret: A Play
"Josiah's Secret" by Marietta Holley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around McTeague, a ?dentist? practicing in San Francisco at the turn of the century. While at first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus, McTeague eventually courts and marries Trina, a parsimonious young woman who wins a large sum of money in a lottery. It is not long before the jealousy and avarice of the majority of the characters in the novel sets off a chain of inevitable and increasingly horrific events. Norris' work, so strikingly different from that of his contemporaries, is an admirable example of social realism, which provided America with a shocking reflection of its sordid sense of survival. From the opening description of San Francisco to McTeague's final desperate flight far from his 'Dental Parlors, ' this novel examines human greed in a way that still causes readers to pause and reflect.
Mr. And Mrs. S?n (1923)
In this day of kaleidoscopic changes, of brand-new ultra "smartness," of emancipations so tremendous, so upheaving, so incalculably far-reaching that to some they almost seem to forecast the end of all things, still there are old bulwarks of customs, of character, of individualities and of life itself that neither change nor are changed. The Townsends of Virginia are today just what they were long before 1776.There is only one of them left-Miss Julia-but she is they-the Townsends of Virginia; gracious, unapproachable, deft in a small, delicate way with her harpsichord, accomplished at her jellies, proud of her naperies, tyrannous and over-indulgent to her darkies, a fine judge of horseflesh, sure of herself, doubtful of you-unless your forebears of the same "first-families" caste as hers, had been born, had wived and begotten and borne, as hers invariably had, in Virginia-a stanch Episcopalian, refined to the nth degree, intolerant, sentimental-but too proud, and of too good form, to own or to show it-exclusive, generous-except of her acquaintance and in her opinions-a writer of feeble verses, brilliant along her own selected and approved lines, dull and ill-informed on all others, autocratic and secretly supersensitive, a gourmet who ate very little, an expert judge of good wines who rarely drank them-buttermilk was her one creature weakness-charitable (although she was poorly enough off-had to count her dimes, and couldn't count with even pretense at accuracy)-charitable to every "good work" she approved of or hungry creature that came to her back door, relentlessly uncharitable to any cause she did not sympathize with and to any "beggar" who presumed at her front door.Rosehill, the home she lived in, had more and finer magnolias than it had roses, but a great many and very beautiful roses grew at Rosehill. And in August you could smell the musk and the heliotrope right across the Potomac.