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Helen Hunt Jackson

Ramona: A Story

Paperback (Forgotten Books March 30, 2013)
The following computer-generated description may contain errors and does not represent the quality of the book.American invasion, while.still the waning Spanish and Catholic civilizations struggled for existence on the Pacific coast, may be trusted to enchain the readers attention to the final page. But every reader of a delightful book likes to know something of its author, and nowhere in Ramona will you find H.H. She was too true an artist to intrude herself into her picture. The incidents of her life were not eventful. Helen Maria Fiske was the name to which she was born in Amherst, Mass., Aug.18, 1831.Her father, Nathan Wiley Fiske, was Professor of Philosophy in Amherst College. He had previously filled the chair of Languages, and still earlier had been offered a Professorship of Mathematics at Middleboro, facts which indicate the range of his attainments. Her mother, Deborah Vinal, came from old-fashioned, rather rigid New England stock, but a certain natural sparkle and gift of cheer softened the rigidity and made life agreeable to those with whom she lived. These qualities, together with an instinct for literary expression, descended as an inheritance to her eldest daughter. This excellent Calvinistic pair, with their harrow outlook and inflexible standards of right and wrong, must sometimes have been sorely tried and perplexed by the strange fledgling which it had pleased Providence to drop into their orthodox nest. Helen was born a radical, with a passionate love for nature, for exploration, for trying and proving all new things. Question, doubt, adventure, resistance to the powers that be, were in her very blood. She loved, when she did love, with her whole heart, but she hated as thoroughly as she loved, and what she hated or doubted she resisted. Her will was like an iron rod; you could influence but never bend her. She was daring, defiant, audaciously frank, and her keen sense of humor dealt unsparingly with constituted authorities.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally-enhance the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.Tags: alessandro senora father day indian time house face mother eye think saw senorita look place night horse head cried heart
Pages
502
Weight
28.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 1.1 in.

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