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The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow
The Collected Stories of Ellen Richard K. The Collected Stories of Ellen Louisiana State University FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Louisiana State University, 1963. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with endpapers professionally replaced, library stamp on title page and spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 318196 Short Stories We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
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254 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1963
About the author
Ellen Glasgow
145 books71 followersAmerican writer Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow won a Pulitzer Prize for
In This Our Life
(1941), her realistic historical novel of Virginia.
Born into an upper-class Virginian family, Glasgow at an early age rebelled against traditional expectations of women and authored 20 bestselling novels. Southern settings of the majority of her novels reflect her awareness of the enormous social and economic changes, occurring in the South in the decades before her birth and throughout her own life.
Beginning in 1897, she wrote her novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.
Glasgow read widely to compensate for her own rudimentary education. She maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell, another notable writer of Richmond. She spent many summers at the historic Jerdone Castle plantation estate of her family in Bumpass, Virginia; this venue reappears in her writings. Her works include: The Descendant (1897), Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898), The Voice of the People (1900), The Battle- Ground (1902), The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields (1904), The Romance of a Plain Man (1909), Virginia (1913), The Builders (1919), The Past (1920), Barren Ground (1925), The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), The Sheltered Life (1932), Vein of Iron (1935), In This Our Life (1941).
Born into an upper-class Virginian family, Glasgow at an early age rebelled against traditional expectations of women and authored 20 bestselling novels. Southern settings of the majority of her novels reflect her awareness of the enormous social and economic changes, occurring in the South in the decades before her birth and throughout her own life.
Beginning in 1897, she wrote her novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.
Glasgow read widely to compensate for her own rudimentary education. She maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell, another notable writer of Richmond. She spent many summers at the historic Jerdone Castle plantation estate of her family in Bumpass, Virginia; this venue reappears in her writings. Her works include: The Descendant (1897), Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898), The Voice of the People (1900), The Battle- Ground (1902), The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields (1904), The Romance of a Plain Man (1909), Virginia (1913), The Builders (1919), The Past (1920), Barren Ground (1925), The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), The Sheltered Life (1932), Vein of Iron (1935), In This Our Life (1941).
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July 31, 2013
You May NOT Borrow This Book!
The collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow is no longer available at our local library and I guess I'm stingy, but you may NOT borrow it. It doesn't matter if you're my mother, neighbor, friend, or client - you may NOT borrow this book. Glasgow was one of America's leading female novelists and this collection of her works is fantastic. Add to those great stories, the editing and introduction by Richard K. Meeker and you have a book that you'll want to keep and read again and again. I definitely recommend buying your own copy, because I won't be lending mine out!
The collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow is no longer available at our local library and I guess I'm stingy, but you may NOT borrow it. It doesn't matter if you're my mother, neighbor, friend, or client - you may NOT borrow this book. Glasgow was one of America's leading female novelists and this collection of her works is fantastic. Add to those great stories, the editing and introduction by Richard K. Meeker and you have a book that you'll want to keep and read again and again. I definitely recommend buying your own copy, because I won't be lending mine out!
October 25, 2008
My first experience with Glasgow. I don't usually like short stories, but many of these blew me away; I had no idea there were American women (other than Willa Cather) writing so authentically in the late 19th/early 20th century.
May 23, 2018
An interesting collection of short stories, and the only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 stars is because they were a mixed bag-some were very good short stories, and some were excellent short stories, but they were all interesting short stories!
December 20, 2025
"The Past", "The Difference", "The Shadowy Third", and "Dare's Gift" are the highlights of this near perfect collection of stories. Glasgow is an overlooked author.
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