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Plot summary. Police detective John Hunton investigates a fatal accident at the Blue Ribbon Laundry in which worker Adelle Frawley was killed. Frawley was somehow pulled into the laundry's speed ironing and folding machine, which the workers colloquially refer to as "the mangler." Hunton is disturbed by the sight of Frawley's grisly remains and ...
Dishwasher Pete. Dishwasher Pete is the pen name for Pete Jordan, author of the popular Dishwasher zine as well as the book of the same title, whose goal was to wash dishes in every state in America. For more than a decade, he moved from city to city, state to state, washing dishes in restaurants, hospitals, cafeterias, ski resorts, camps ...
The first story in the book is an unpublished MacDonald story, while Anne explains in the book that the remaining stories are based on "notes for other stories among her mother's possessions." The first editions of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic were illustrated by Richard Bennett and Kurt Wiese respectively.
ISBN. 0-14-144159-3 (current Penguin Classics edition) Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. [1] The novel was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.
PZ3.K11 Co PT2621.A26. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels (The Trial, The Castle and Amerika), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971.
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman (laundress) who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea.
Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Mrs. Wishy-Washy is a popular children's book character created by New Zealand author Joy Cowley, and illustrated by Elizabeth Ann Fuller. Since its debut in 1980, the series has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. [1] The Mrs. Wishy-Washy character has been featured in 20 short stories for early readers over the past ...
The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."