Peattie Elia Wilkinson: 18 books

This work dwells on the wonderful and engaging memories of childhood and youth. Peattie presents the idea that the youthful frustrations and problems faced in middle age can be overcome by the memories of childhood. This is an engrossing narrative told in the most delightful manner to grasp the readers attention.

ONE who enters Chicago unacquainted with it, having no open sesame to its hospitable doors, knowing the city only by its streets, its hotels, and its theatres, is disturbed by an unpleasant emotion. If he comes from some well-regulated, cultivated, and placid town of the eastern part of this country,...

A vivacious tale of a woman in which Peattie has effectively expressed that Nature can capture a man’s most innate ideas and feelings. The woman who is captivated by the splendor around her and artificial life-style of cities is compared with the heartwarming experience of the one living close to...

A vivacious tale of a woman in which Peattie has effectively expressed that Nature can capture a man's most innate ideas and feelings. The woman who is captivated by the splendor around her and artificial life-style of cities is compared with the heartwarming experience of the one living close to...

Even small ghosts can be spooky.... A collection of classic short ghost stories involving children: Spooky, with a hint of sweet. The flight includes: The Other Child, by E. Nesbit The Wind in the Rose-bush, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Their Dear Little Ghost, by Elia Wilkinson Peattie Morella,...

Elia Wilkinson Peattie was an American author, journalist and critic.

Elia Wilkinson Peattie was an American author, journalist and critic.

A vivacious tale of a woman in which Peattie has effectively expressed that Nature can capture a man's most innate ideas and feelings. The woman who is captivated by the splendor around her and artificial life-style of cities is compared with the heartwarming experience of the one living close to nature. The portrayal of rustic life is picturesque and fascinating!

YOUNG people believe very little that they hear about the compensations of growing old, and of living over again in memory the events of the past. Yet there really are these compensations and pleasures, and although they are not so vivid and breathless as the pleasures of youth, they have something delicate and fine about them that must be experienced to be appreciated.

MOST of the tales in this little book have been printed before. “A Mountain Woman” appeared in Harper's Weekly, as did “The Three Johns” and “A Resuscitation. ” “Jim Lancy's Waterloo” was printed in the Cosmopolitan, “A Michigan Man” in Lippincott's, and “Up the Gulch” in Two...

TIM O'CONNOR— who was descended from the O'Conors with one N— — started life as a poet and an enthusiast. His mother had designed him for the priesthood, and at the age of fifteen, most of his verses had an ecclesiastical tinge, but, somehow or other, he got into the newspaper business instead,...