Sparkling with Jessamyn West's special gifts of poetic language and vivid detail, this is a powerful portrait of Orpha Chase, a writer whose blissfully sentimental books contrast acutely with her own difficult life.

The Life I Really Lived

WEST, Jessamyn

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Friendly Persuasion

1981, mass market paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1945), Penguin Books, NY. 243 pages. The author's first novel, concerning a Quaker family. Became a beloved film starring Gary Cooper.

Contemporary

Thirty-eight stories depict suspense, romance, obsession, the supernatural, adolescence, and sexual relationships

Collected Stories of Jessamyn West

Harcourt

This sympathetic portrayal of adolescence tells how young Cress sets out to change her personality and becomes an individual

Cress Delahanty

Genre Fiction

Crimson ramblers of the world, farewell

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Reviewing her personal journals and letters she had written to her parents fifty years ago, the author recalls her trips to England and Ireland and what travel taught her about herself

Double Discovery: A Journey

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Small crease to DJ near spine. Pages are clean and crisp and binding is tight. Solid Book.

Except For Me and Thee: A Companion to The Friendly Persuasion

Harcout Brace & World

A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them, sometimes with candor, sometimes with violence, and tests the strength of their beliefs. Whether it's a gift parcel arriving on their doorstep or Confederate soldiers approaching their land, the Birdwells embrace life with emotion, conviction, and a love for one another that seems to conquer all.The Friendly Persuasion has charmed generations of readers as one of our classic tales of the American Midwest.

The Friendly Persuasion.

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

The personal narrative of the celebrated writer reveals her family and life and sentiments towards the joys and pains of solitude

Hide and Seek

Arts & Literature

Jessamyn West's spirited novelâ€”set in the Ohio Territory in the early 1880sâ€”is a handsomely paced adventure for lovers of period romance and suspense. Leafy Rivers is a young bride caught up in emotions she does not altogether understand and cannot quite control. As she races against time to save a life and a marriage that may already be lost, a vivid assortment of charactersâ€”such as Simon Yanders, a man whose loss has taught him generosity and whose grief has made him alert to joy; Cashie Wade, irresistibly wild and free; and Leafy's husband, Reno, whose love is matched only by his ineptitudeâ€”offers challenges that threaten to waylay her at every turn.

Leafy Rivers

Harcourt,brace & World

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