Regina Barreca
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Barreca ponders life's questions and many others by giving women a hilarious antidote for the toxic "musts" they've been fed over the centuries, mulling over everything from the horror of chin hairs to why the "glass ceiling" is better described as a thick layer of men and telling women to stop believing the lies and conquer the world.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Gina Barreca is fed up with women who lean in, but don't open their mouths. In her latest collection of essays, she turns her attention to subjects like bondage which she notes now seems to come in fifty shades of grey and has been renamed Spanx. She muses on those lessons learned in Kindergarten that every woman must unlearn like not having to hold the hand of the person you're walking next to (especially if he's a bad boyfriend) or needing to have...
Publisher
Woodhall Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fast Fallen Women includes 75 previously unpublished pieces on the topic of the ways in which women fall--whether they reach the boundaries of their lives and take flight, whether they stumble, or are pushed over the edge. Holding a compact mirror up to life, given that all the essays are under 750 words, the book bears witness to women's resilience, creativity, and wit as women write about rising up against all odds. With new and original works...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"Contains two novel, in Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Lorelei Lee, a beautiful blonde whose dense exterior belies a keen ability to play men for all they are worth, Lorelei chronicles a tour of Europe; and in But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, chronicles the adventures of marriage."--
Author
Language
English
Description
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country", Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy is transported by a prairie cyclone to the world of Oz, where she meets friends Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, sees the wondrous Emerald City and its ruling wizard, and defeats the wicked Witch of the West in her efforts to return to Kansas." --