The gates ajar / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ; introduction by Elizabeth Duquette and Claudia Stokes.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Penguin Classics, 2019Whakaahuatanga: xxv, 143 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780143133919
- 0143133918
- 813/.4 23
- PS3142 .G3 2019
- FIC004000 | HIS036050 | FIC042030
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PHEL (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | I2189594 |
Tirotiro ana Hāwera LibraryPlus Ngā whatanga, Shelving location: Fiction, Collection: Fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
PETR The unbelieved / | PETT The killing tide / | PETT True story / | PHEL The gates ajar / | PHIF The good sisters / | PHIF The killer's girl / | PHIF The hiding place / |
First published in the United States of America by Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869.
"For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven and demonstrated that for American women, the war didn't simply end at Appomattox. When Mary Cabot loses her beloved brother, Union soldier Royal, in the war, she feels as though she will never feel peace again until the arrival of her widowed aunt Winifred. Sharing the wisdom that has comforted her through her grief, Winifred offers Mary a groundbreaking view of the afterlife: a place of loving reunion with all those who were lost. As Winifred ministers to Mary, her vision of the afterlife circulates in the community and attracts local adherents who have similarly suffered losses in the war. Written with the intention of illuminating and bettering the lives of women after the war, The Gates Ajar is an empowering manifesto on conquering grief and a timeless manual for optimism"--
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