Elia Wilkinson Peattie: 18 books

Book cover of Selected Works of Elia Wilkinson Peattie
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

ONE who enters Chicago unacquainted with it, having no open sesame to its hospitable doors, knowing the city only by its streets, its hotels, and its theatres, is disturbed by an unpleasant emotion. If he comes from some well-regulated, cultivated, and placid town of the eastern part of this country,...
Book cover of A Mountain Woman
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019

A vivacious tale of a woman in which Peattie has effectively expressed that Nature can capture a man’s most innate ideas and feelings. The woman who is captivated by the splendor around her and artificial life-style of cities is compared with the heartwarming experience of the one living close to...
Book cover of A Mountain Woman
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Sheba Blake
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018

A vivacious tale of a woman in which Peattie has effectively expressed that Nature can capture a man's most innate ideas and feelings. The woman who is captivated by the splendor around her and artificial life-style of cities is compared with the heartwarming experience of the one living close to...
Book cover of Small and Spooky

Small and Spooky

A Collection of Classic Short Ghost Stories

by M.R. Nelson, E. Nesbit, Edgar Allen Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

Even small ghosts can be spooky.... A collection of classic short ghost stories involving children: Spooky, with a hint of sweet. The flight includes: The Other Child, by E. Nesbit The Wind in the Rose-bush, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Their Dear Little Ghost, by Elia Wilkinson Peattie Morella,...
Book cover of A Michigan Man: 1891
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

Elia Wilkinson Peattie was an American author, journalist and critic.
Book cover of Painted Windows
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

Elia Wilkinson Peattie was an American author, journalist and critic.
Book cover of A Mountain Woman
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

A vivacious tale of a woman in which Peattie has effectively expressed that Nature can capture a man's most innate ideas and feelings. The woman who is captivated by the splendor around her and artificial life-style of cities is compared with the heartwarming experience of the one living close to nature. The portrayal of rustic life is picturesque and fascinating!
Book cover of Painted Windows
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

YOUNG people believe very little that they hear about the compensations of growing old, and of living over again in memory the events of the past. Yet there really are these compensations and pleasures, and although they are not so vivid and breathless as the pleasures of youth, they have something delicate and fine about them that must be experienced to be appreciated.
Book cover of The Shape of Fear
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of A Mountain Woman
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

MOST of the tales in this little book have been printed before. “A Mountain Woman” appeared in Harper's Weekly, as did “The Three Johns” and “A Resuscitation. ” “Jim Lancy's Waterloo” was printed in the Cosmopolitan, “A Michigan Man” in Lippincott's, and “Up the Gulch” in Two...
Book cover of The Shape of Fear
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

TIM O'CONNOR— who was descended from the O'Conors with one N— — started life as a poet and an enthusiast. His mother had designed him for the priesthood, and at the age of fifteen, most of his verses had an ecclesiastical tinge, but, somehow or other, he got into the newspaper business instead,...
Book cover of Painted Windows
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of A Mountain Woman
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016

"I have married a mountain woman," he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, -- a primitive woman, grand and vast of spirit, capable of true and steadfast wifehood. No sophistry about her; no knowledge even that there is sophistry....
Book cover of Annie Laurie and Azalea
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

The long red clay road, winding down from the cabin where the McBirneys lived on their high shelf of Tennyson mountain, was frosted delicately with white, and by the roadside the curious frost flowers lifted their heads, as airy-fine as fern. From the half-hidden cabins all around the semicircle of...
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