Author: Maureen Brady
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: folly
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1558610790
ISBN-13: 9781558610798
Folly tells the story of women without men, divorced or widowed or lesbian, workers in a textile plant in North Carolina in the 1970s, who are neighbors in a trailer camp, along with their aging mothers and teenage daughters. What brings them together-black women as well as white women-is the death of a sick baby left necessarily at home alone because there were no health care provisions in the male owned and run factory. After the baby’s death, the women decide to strike. The novel records the winning of that strike, and, at the same time, the inner lives of the younger and older
Author: Susan Minot
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: novel, folly
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 067174951X
ISBN-13: 9780671749514
The author of the national bestseller Monkeys has written a new novel that will appeal to fans of The Age of Innocence. Set in 1917 New England, it is the story of a conventional girl with unconventional stirrings, in a world where the choosing of a husband determines a woman’s life.
Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Ember
Keywords: folly
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2011-05-10
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0375855432
ISBN-13: 9780375855436
Three fates intertwine in this moving and passionate love story set in Victorian London. Mary Finn: country girl, maid to a lord in LondonCaden Tucker: liar, scoundrel, and heart’s delightJames Nelligan: age six, tossed into a herd of boysWhen Mary Finn falls into the arms of handsome Caden Tucker, their frolic changes the course of her life. What possesses her? She’s been a girl of common sense until now. Mary’s tale alternates with that of young James Nelligan, a new boy in an enormous foundling home.In Folly, Marthe Jocelyn’s breathtaking command of language, detail
Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Keywords: folly
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-05-11
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0385738463
ISBN-13: 9780385738460
Three fates intertwine in this moving and passionate love story set in Victorian London. Mary Finn: country girl, maid to a lord in LondonCaden Tucker: liar, scoundrel, and heart’s delightJames Nelligan: age six, tossed into a herd of boysWhen Mary Finn falls into the arms of handsome Caden Tucker, their frolic changes the course of her life. What possesses her? She’s been a girl of common sense until now. Mary’s tale alternates with that of young James Nelligan, a new boy in an enormous foundling home.In Folly, Marthe Jocelyn’s breathtaking command of language, detail
Author: Karen White
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: beach, folly
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-05-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0451229215
ISBN-13: 9780451229212
Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it’s the personal battles of Folly Beach’s residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own... To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it’s a sanctuary for lost souls, which is why Emmy Hamilton’s mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly’s Finds, hoping it will distract Emmy from the loss of her husband. Emmy is at first resistant. So much has already cha
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: folly, praise
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1602064601
ISBN-13: 9781602064607
Witty, influential work by one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance satirizes the shortcomings of the upper classes and religious institutions. Required reading for humanities classes, this literary gem is ripe with vignettes and caricatures--with Folly, a metaphor for stupidity, the centerpiece. Unabridged republication of the John Wilson translation.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher: Arc Manor
Keywords: folly, praise
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1604502266
ISBN-13: 9781604502268
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