Author: Harr WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Street and the Flower
Author: Harr WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Street and the Flower. A Novel
Author: Harr WagnerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385340039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Street and the Flower
Author: Harr WagnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330651865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Excerpt from The Street and the Flower: A Novel Some painter enriched our Centennial Exhibition with a picture of the Caesar on his war-horse. An affrighted woman carrying her child is seen in the distance, escaping for her life; the ruthless hoof of the horse is planted in the bosom of another woman, less fortunate in her escape, while the Caesar, indifferent to the sufferings of his march, is calmly studying the globe in his hand, planning at what gates he will next marshal his legions, and what country he will next subdue to his scepter. That proud and ruthless Caesar is dust to-day; his marchings are all over; his name affrights no woman or child, but his horse goes on, mounted by another and more reckless, cruel, bloodthirsty rider. Caesar has given place to alcohol; strong drink commands a larger army, besieges and conquers more cities, and tramples into the dust more women and children than ever did the Caesar. Women and children are always the victims of the world's passions. Men may have the glory, the fame or the pleasure; women and children have the pains, the privations, the bitter dregs of it all. Man's breast may heave with proud ambition, on the horse; woman's breast is crushed by the cruel hoof. That horse and that rider are making fearful havoc on our own streets. Their victims pass us on every corner in increasing numbers. The mark of the hoof is plainly seen. Their cry is in our ears, and we dare not be deaf to it. It may be true that strong drink and its blighting results have not touched us; but we are surely past the days of the Stoic and the Pharisee who could wrap themselves in their superiority, and thank God they were not as other men. "What is your Christianity to me?" is an accumulating cry coming up from these miserable unfortunates, which we know and feel ought to have a more practical and comprehensive answer. Christian people hear that cry and feel the inadequacy of the work performed. We stand on the corner of some famous streets where these waifs gather in greater numbers, and, looking beyond, we see the spires of our churches that have cost a hundred thousand dollars - costly piles that stand idle and echoless for six days in the week, across whose portals, opened for two hours on the Sunday, few of this class feel welcome, and less come, and we realize that certainly something is wrong. That amount of capital ought not to be locked up at such a small percent of return. None feels or regrets this more than the Christian community. There are hundreds who fain would do something, even much, to alleviate and to prevent all this misery, if they only knew what to do and where to do it. Many a willing heart is delayed, waiting for a large opportunity, or discouraged through the failure of an attempt on too grand a scale. The heroism of books, the chivalric deeds of the past, seem to have all been performed on horseback, by mailed knights who scoured the globe for the relief of the oppressed and the unfortunate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Street of the Flower Boxes
Author: Peggy MannPublisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Carlos and his friends have great fun ripping up the flowers planted by a new family on West 94th Street. When his grandmother insists that he apologize, he never suspects that he will become guardian of the flower boxes.
Look at Flower
Author: Robert DunnPublisher: Coral Press
ISBN: 0970829310
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Capturing the zeitgeist of 1967, this story follows a young girl named Flower as she discovers the hippie counterculture. At turns naïve and wise beyond her years, scruffy yet beautiful, heedlessly adventurous and endlessly savvy, Flower is a character for any time, not just her own. From “Cowtown, Oregon,” Flower runs away to San Francisco to experience the Summer of Love and then goes off on train-hopping, hitchhiking adventures across the USA, with stints working at a bank and at a summer camp disguised as a boy, and stays at both a timber camp and then a commune called Old Bison. A picaresque journey, this tale explores the music, romance, politics, and world-changing dreams of the late 1960s.
A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street
Author: Milam McGraw PropstPublisher: BelleBooks
ISBN: 1935661604
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Now that her beloved mother has died, nine-year-old Ociee Nash is the only girl in the Nash family. Even in the modern times of 1900 it's hard to get good grades, learn good manners, and stay out of trouble on her papa's Mississippi farm. Ociee is always up for adventures with her adoring brothers. Deciding his daring daughter needs a woman's influence, Papa Nash sends Ociee to live with her lovable Aunt Mamie in the big city of Asheville, North Carolina. There Ociee makes some fascinating friends, including one of the Wright brothers, but doesn't give up her adventurous ways. Atlanta author Milam McGraw Propst was awarded Georgia Author of the Year and a national Parent's Choice Award for the first book in the Ociee Nash series, A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street, which then became an acclaimed film in 2003 as THE ADVENTURES OF OCIEE NASH.
A Memory of Violets
Author: Hazel GaynorPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062316907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From the author of the USA Today bestseller The Girl Who Came Home comes an unforgettable historical novel that tells the story of two long-lost sisters—orphaned flower sellers—and a young woman who is transformed by their experiences. "For little sister. . . . I will never stop looking for you." 1876. Among the filth and depravity of Covent Garden's flower markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets and watercress to survive. It is a pitiful existence, made bearable only by each other's presence. When they become separated, the decision of a desperate woman sets their lives on very different paths. 1912. Twenty-one-year-old Tilly Harper leaves the peace and beauty of her native Lake District for London to become assistant housemother at one of Mr. Shaw's Training Homes for Watercress and Flower Girls. For years, the homes have cared for London's orphaned and crippled flower girls, getting them off the streets. For Tilly, the appointment is a fresh start, a chance to leave her troubled past behind. Soon after she arrives at the home, Tilly finds a notebook belonging to Flora Flynn. Hidden between the pages she finds dried flowers and a heartbreaking tale of loss and separation as Flora's entries reveal how she never stopped looking for her lost sister. Tilly sets out to discover what happened to Rosie—but the search will not be easy. Full of twists and surprises, it leads the caring and determined young woman into unexpected places, including the depths of her own heart.
The Flowers
Author: Dagoberto GilbPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Dagoberto Gilb is “one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed” (Larry McMurtry). Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. As Sonny meets his new neighbors, he is inexorably ensnared in their lives: Cindy, a married, bored, drugged-up eighteen-year-old; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother despite never being allowed to leave her apartment: Pink, an albino black man who sells old cars in front of the building; and Bud, a muscle-bound construction worker who hates blacks and Mexicans, even while he’s married to a Mexican-American woman. In arguably his most powerful work yet, Dagoberto Gilb has written “a psychologically complex novel” that transcends age, race, and time, displaying the fearlessness and wit that have helped make him one of America’s most authentic and original voices (The Washington Post).
The Novels, Tales and Plays of John Galsworthy: The dark flower
Author: John GalsworthyStreet of the Flower Boxes
Author: Peggy MannPublisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671293222
Category : Neighbors
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Tells a story about a boy named Carlos, who held a block party in order to raise money for flower boxes to beautify his street.