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The Transformation of Philip Jettan. E-book. Formato PDF Stella Martin - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
Powder and Patch is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. It was originally titled The Transformation of Philip Jettan when published by Mills and Boon in 1923. In 1930, the book was republished by William Heinemann minus the original last chapter as Powder and Patch. Philip Jettan, a handsome and sturdy but tongue-tied youth, is rejected by his true love because he is not foppish enough. He resolves to improve himself and travels to Paris, where he becomes a sensation. Once he returns, however, Cleone realizes she wants the old Philip in place of the "painted puppy" she has received.
I Pose. E-book. Formato PDF Stella Benson - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
Stella Benson was born on 6 January 1892 at Lutwyche Hall, an Elizabethan Mansion in South Shropshire, England, and her aunt was novelist Mary Cholmondeley. Her background was privileged but her health was poor. She became a devoted reader and a regular diarist; she inherited a passionate concern for social issues, and in particular women's suffrage, from her mother and her aunts. Wen the First World War came she worked as a gardener and she supported poor women in the East End of London who had suddenly found themselves having to earn their own living. Those experiences provide the foundations for her first novel, published in 1915; and what she builds on those foundations is odd, unexpected, and gloriously creative. She tells the story of two characters - a gardener and a suffragette. They are never named, but that really doesn't matter. First there is the gardener, a young man with independent means who is proceeding through life by adopting a series of poses that allow him to be exactly who he wants to be and to address those around him in riddles and witticisms. On the spur of the moment he sets out to try the life of a vagabond. "I have left everything I have as hostages with fate," said the gardener. "When I get tired of Paradise, I'll come back." He has not travelled far when he encounters the suffragette. She too is posing: not when she speaks about suffrage, which she cares about deeply, but when she claims not to care about whether she lives or dies, about whether she is loved or not, about whether she is hurt or harmed. The gardener was concerned when he found the suffragette intended to blow up a church. 'The gardener, of course, shared the views of all decent men on this subject. One may virtuously destroy life in a good cause, but to destroy property is a heinous crime, whatever its motive..' He took action, and that was the first step in an adventure that would take them to the a distant, exotic island group and back again, meeting all kinds of characters, having all kinds of experiences and learning all kinds of lessons. They would pose as a married couple and they would proceed in opposing directions. The narrator intervened from time to time, posing just as much as her creations, and that balanced things beautifully. There was a lovely Scottie dog, there was a recue at sea, there was a lady novelist, there was an earthquake, there was the indomitable Mrs Rust: '"I don't agree with you at all," said Mrs. Rust, who now made this remark mechanically in any pause in the conversation.' The gardener would fall in love with the suffragette; but the suffragette would fall more deeply in love with her cause - or maybe with her pose.
Campfire Girls' Outing / Or, Ethel Hollister's Second Summer in Camp. E-book. Formato PDF Stella M. Francis - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2018 -
Ethel would have never become a Camp Fire Girl excepting for her great-aunt Susan. Susan Carpenter was her Grandmother Hollister’s only sister, living in Akron, Ohio. Her family consisted of Mr. Thomas Harper and herself. Tom’s parents had been her friends, and when they were taken Aunt Susan legally adopted him and his little brother Fred, but the younger one died before graduating, while Tom went through college and was now a rising young lawyer. Aunt Susan Carpenter was a philanthropist. At the time of her adopting the boys she was reputed to be a millionaire. She gave her beautiful home to the city for an Asylum for partially insane people and endowed it with fifty thousand dollars, after which the leading men in town raised fifty thousand more, thereby making it self-supporting. She was also on the board of managers of many other charities, and was adored by her townspeople. Four years previous to her visit to New York, she had lost every penny of her immense fortune—lost it through the rascality of a large and well advertised concern calling itself the “Great Western Cereal Company.” The whole thing was a rotten affair from the first and was floated by ten unscrupulous men who, after obtaining all the money they could, fled from the country before the exposure came; that is, save three, one of whom was arrested while the other two committed suicide. Aunt Susan wrote nothing of it to her sister lest it should worry her, and as she had never met her nephew’s family in New York, and they knowing no one in Akron, they were in ignorance of the change in Aunt Susan’s affairs and still thought her a wealthy woman.