


A hush-hushed collection that speaks with the clarity and courage of a master craftsman. An Alabaster Box gathers stories that illuminate the pulse of late nineteenth-century New England, where small-town lives, public decorum, and private weathering collide with quiet, insistent...

"We," said Mrs. Solomon Black with weighty emphasis, "are going to get up a church fair and raise that money, and we are going to pay your salary. We can't stand it another minute. We had better run in debt to the butcher and baker than to the Lord."Wesley Elliot regarded her...




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An Alabaster Box is a novel written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The story is set in a small New England town and follows the life of a young woman named Deborah. Deborah is a quiet and reserved woman who lives with her father, a stern and overbearing man who disapproves of her...



Excerpt from An Alabaster Box Mrs. Solomon Black was a woman who had always had her way. There was not one line which denoted yielding in her large, still handsome face, set about with very elaborate water-waves which she had ar ranged so many years that her black hair...

"An Alabaster Box" from Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Prominent 19th-century American author (1852-1930).

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good...


