"In William Trevor's first novel, The Old Boys, a group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of the President of the Association. Now, however, the men possess a fiercer understanding of the things in life that matter - power, revenge, hatred, love, and …
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
-- Bone Gap -- Sadie "--A Room Away from the Wolves, critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Nova Ren Suma weaves a spellbinding ghost story about who deserves a second chance, how we lie to those around us and ourselves, and what lengths girls will go to in o…
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet. Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from h…
Blending Caribbean folk stories with modern settings, this unique collection of stories narrated by a ninety-seven-year-old woman alternates between the lewd, witty, and lyrical.
Blending Caribbean folk stories with modern settings, this unique collection of stories narrated by a ninety-seven-year-old woman alternates between the lewd, witty, and lyrical.
The Crux
by Project Muse, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Cr…