Rebecca Davis: 42 books

Book cover of Frances Waldeaux
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

Frances Waldeaux Rebecca Harding Davis, pioneer of literary realism in American literature (1831-1910) This ebook presents «Frances Waldeaux», from Rebecca Harding Davis. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- FRANCES WALDEAUX  
Book cover of Life in the Iron Mills
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014

A shocking rendering of poverty, tragedy, and desperation in the American North This shocking depiction of the lives of impoverished Welsh miners in the American North was one of the first novels to expose the brutal realities facing the nation’s poor. Rebecca Harding Davis casts an unflinching...
Book cover of Speculative Story Bites
by Sarena Ulibarri, Shannon Phillips, Adam Gaylord
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

Fifteen bite-sized stories, offering a sampler platter of fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal horror. Within these pages, you’ll find flower fairies, alien brothels, were-bears, and sentient houses. Step inside a museum where all the displays are haunted, follow a siren into the underworld...
Book cover of A Law Unto Herself
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her...
Book cover of Life in the Iron Mills
by Rebecca Harding Davis, Gregory Hadley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

Deb Wolfe’s days at the cotton mill are long and hard, often leaving her with little to eat or time to rest. At home she looks after her uncle and her cousin, Hugh, whom she loves without hope, thinking her hunchback prevents anyone from loving her. Hugh strains daily over flames in an iron mill,...
Book cover of Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman (Annotated)
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015

Life in the Iron Mills is a short story (or novel) written by Rebecca Harding Davis in 1861, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It is one of the first American realist works, and is an important text for those who study labor and women's issues. It was immediately recognized as an...
Book cover of Ploughshares Summer 2015 Guest-Edited by Lauren Groff
by Lauren Groff, Rebecca Makkai, Lydia Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015

Description The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.   Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer...
Book cover of Margret Howth: A Story Of To-Day
by Davis Rebecca Harding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Recuperating from spiritual decay is the motif of this narrative. Rebecca Davis has created personas that realize their misplaced ambitions in life and work to bring about a change for the better. In a side plot she has also touched on the poverty and discrimination in a land where equality of men is preached and apparently every one has equal rights. Insightful!
Book cover of The Human Tradition in the New South
by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives...
Book cover of Frances Waldeaux
by Davis,Rebecca Harding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

A charming tale that is filled with emotions and depicts the ups and downs of life in a befitting manner. The characters are drawn with such precision that they seem to right out of real-life. With decisions of great magnitude that have to be made, Davis has captured the anxiety, the tribulations and finally the relief of her characters.
Book cover of The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume (Kathartika™ Classics)
by Cynthia Asquith, Leonid Andreyev, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Book cover of Against the Wind, Season 2, Episode 1
by Rebecca Zanetti, Julie Kenner, Dee Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Secrets, Sex and Scandals … Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy… Get ready. The storm is coming. As Tate Johnson works to find a balance between his ambitions for political office and the fallout of his brother’s betrayal,...
Book cover of The Blacker the Ink

The Blacker the Ink

Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

by John Jennings, Daniel F. Yezbick, Sally McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged....
Book cover of The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 5 (30 short stories)
by Henry James, M. R. James, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
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