Elsie Singmaster

"On July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, in an ill-conceived interpretation of his orders, advanced his men beyond the established Union line and exposed his flanks to a potentially devastating Confederate attack. Shortly after being reprimanded by his commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, for endangering the entire Union Army. Sickles was hit by a cannonball. He returned to Washington with his leg amputated and his pride badly wounded." "A politician and lawyer prior to the war, Sickles was already notorious for being the first person in U.S. history acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity. During his recuperation in the nation's capital, Sickles defended his actions at Gettysburg to anyone who would listen, including President Lincoln, and criticized Meade before Congress's Committee on the Conduct of the War. He continued defending himself for years after the war, while Meade remained mostly silent on the subject." "Now, historian Richard A. Sauers destroys many commonly accepted myths about the controversy by examining the evidence in detail. In this fascinating analysis, he highlights the personality conflicts among military leaders that complicate combat. He also demonstrates that distortions, such as Sickles's version of Gettysburg, are frequently accepted as fact by historians and repeated for generations to come. Sauers shows that Sickles's unjust manipulations harmed Meade's reputation for years after the war."--Jacket.

"The plot of Charlotte Smith's autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the expected thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a "fairy-tale princess." At the same time, the novel satirically reworks such literary conventions by focusing on the dangers of early engagement and marriage, and challenges a social and legal system in which women are inherently illegitimate subjects." "This Broadview edition includes primary source material relating to the novel's reception; women, marriage, and work; and landscape in eighteenth-century fiction. Mary Hays's biographical writing on Smith is also included, as is selected correspondence."--Jacket.

Contents: Survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Little wife / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger -- Iron City / Lovell Thompson -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Net / Robert M. Coates -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- NRACP / George P. Elliott -- In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher -- Other foot / Ray Bradbury -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Mother's tale / James Agee -- Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Old army game / George Garrett -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner -- Keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter -- Long day's dying / William Eastlake -- Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates.

A story of two hundred years ago, based on the experiences of a German family in their long journey from South Germany to our Mohawk Valley in the reign of Queen Anne, and their subsequent adventures in the wilderness.--Provided by publisher.

After her father's death, Lila Tryon takes a job in a New York City bookstore and is baffled by the mysterious attention of strangers. A suspicious-looking fellow boarder and an apparent attempted theft adds to Lila's anxiety.

The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology

This is the story of the Ravenel family when their mother is forced by circumstances to take a job away from home.

From the best of her many Christmas stories, the author has selected seventeen. The stories are carefully timed and arranged in order of length and are for both adults and children. A few of them have a Pennsylvania-Dutch flavor, but as a group they touch many different communities and social strata.--Provided by publisher.

When the Civil War comes to Gettysburg, fourteen-year-old Ann Longport and her friend, Bob McClure, find themselves in a position to help the Union soldiers.

Berry is a wholesome, lovely person living with her grandmother on the outskirts of the town of Gettysburg. The story opens just before the Civil War when the grandmother is working secretly for the underground railway. The climax of the book is the great battle itself. Berry is then a girl of nineteen. Her unpretentious, yet heroic, adventures, her self-sacrifice and happy romance, all center about the great struggle.--Provided by publisher.

The Civil War is seen through a Pennsylvania boy's eyes, as a young Union supporter's wish to see President Lincoln is finally fulfilled.

A powerful, deeply absorbing story in which the reader sees through the eyes of a sensitive boy, John Deane, events preceding the Civil War in the Gettysburg country, the pursuit of escaped negroes, the attack at Harper's Ferry, then war at close range when John's home is taken over by the enemy and he watches the family papers and treasures go to pile up the breastwork.

Aunt Nell George A. Birmingham The Cat and Cupid Arnold Bennett Chu-Bu and Sheemish Lord Dunsany The District Doctor Ivan Turgenev The Eagle's Nest Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson The Indigent Brahman Lal Behari Dey The Missing Mortgagee R. Austin Freeman Oliver Twist, Chapter IX Charles Dickens The Pawnshop Keeper Margery Verner Reed A Respectable Woman Kate Chopin A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry The Slaughter of an Ox at Sea Pierre Loti The Survivors Elsie Singmaster The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany The Undertaker's Chat Mark Twain Up the Slide Jack London The Upturned Face Stephen Crane War Jack London The Weight Of Obligation Rex Beach When Lincoln Licked A Bully Irving Bacheller