A White Heron and Other Stories
Wonderfully descriptive prose from distinguished regionalist writer includes 10 tales dealing with female friendships, poverty, and compassion: "The Town Poor," "Miss Peck’s Promotion," "The Passing of Sister Barsett," 7 more. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Wonderfully descriptive prose from distinguished regionalist writer includes 10 tales dealing with female friendships, poverty, and compassion: "The Town Poor," "Miss Peck’s Promotion," "The Passing of Sister Barsett," 7 more. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780486408842 (0486408841)
ASIN: 9780486408842
Publish date: 02-07-1999
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
There was something magical about this book of short stories. It's not a fancy, high-flying magic, nor a showy, complex magic. It's a simpler magic--of things that are so normal and everyday, but that we have so swiftly forgotten, that it almost cannot be called magic at all. These stories were writ...