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A President Is Born

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On Thanksgiving afternoon in 1903, the twenty-two Schuylers gather in the old House on Sycamore Street, a home so steeped in births, marriages, and memories that it seems to hold the family's entire history within its walls. At the center is Mathilda Schuyler, tireless, proud, and overburdened, presiding over a feast of apple butter, winesap apples, cookies, tortes, and taffy that reflects the ... Read more

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On Thanksgiving afternoon in 1903, the twenty-two Schuylers gather in the old House on Sycamore Street, a home so steeped in births, marriages, and memories that it seems to hold the family's entire history within its walls. At the center is Mathilda Schuyler, tireless, proud, and overburdened, presiding over a feast of apple butter, winesap apples, cookies, tortes, and taffy that reflects the
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No Food With My Meals

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Fannie Hurst's sharply witty, self-mocking narrator turns her own weight struggle into a comic, revealing study of diet culture and the pressure on women to be thin. From the outset, she contrasts a more generous, old-fashioned acceptance of bodies and hearty meals with the modern obsession with calories, restraint, and boyish slimness, showing how appearance can become bound up with vanity, shame ... Read more

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Fannie Hurst's sharply witty, self-mocking narrator turns her own weight struggle into a comic, revealing study of diet culture and the pressure on women to be thin. From the outset, she contrasts a more generous, old-fashioned acceptance of bodies and hearty meals with the modern obsession with calories, restraint, and boyish slimness, showing how appearance can become bound up with vanity, shame
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Every Soul Hath Its Song

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Fannie Hurst's novel bursts to life in the comic, crowded world of two upwardly mobile immigrant Jewish families, where every dinner-table argument and social outing becomes a struggle over love, money, and status. In the Binswanger household, Miriam's determined plea for a summer trip to Europe sets off a sharp, affectionate battle with her practical father Simon, her peacekeeping mother Carrie, ... Read more

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Fannie Hurst's novel bursts to life in the comic, crowded world of two upwardly mobile immigrant Jewish families, where every dinner-table argument and social outing becomes a struggle over love, money, and status. In the Binswanger household, Miriam's determined plea for a summer trip to Europe sets off a sharp, affectionate battle with her practical father Simon, her peacekeeping mother Carrie,
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Just Around the Corner

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Just Around the Corner is a lively, socially observant romance collection by Fannie Hurst, billed as "romance en casserole" and shaped from connected stories that mix wit, tenderness, and sharp-eyed comedy. Across beauty parlors, backstage dressing rooms, and sweltering New York apartments, Hurst captures the pressures of modern urban life with playful titles and a warm but unsparing eye for love, ... Read more

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Just Around the Corner is a lively, socially observant romance collection by Fannie Hurst, billed as "romance en casserole" and shaped from connected stories that mix wit, tenderness, and sharp-eyed comedy. Across beauty parlors, backstage dressing rooms, and sweltering New York apartments, Hurst captures the pressures of modern urban life with playful titles and a warm but unsparing eye for love,
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Lummox

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Bertha is a large Swedish maid whose rough exterior hides a rich, wordless inner life shaped by poverty, immigrant uncertainty, and years of humiliation. Raised in a sailors' lodging house after her mother died in childbirth, she comes to Gramercy Park as the Farleys' cook, laboring in a cold attic while secretly responding to music, fabrics, colors, and the smallest sensory details with near ... Read more

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Bertha is a large Swedish maid whose rough exterior hides a rich, wordless inner life shaped by poverty, immigrant uncertainty, and years of humiliation. Raised in a sailors' lodging house after her mother died in childbirth, she comes to Gramercy Park as the Farleys' cook, laboring in a cold attic while secretly responding to music, fabrics, colors, and the smallest sensory details with near
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Gaslight Sonatas

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Gaslight Sonatas traces the private hungers of city people who live on the edge of hope, where love, work, and luck can all turn cruelly fragile. In one thread, Gertie Slayback, a lonely New York shop girl, transforms the drudgery of rooming-house life and factory routine into a dream of home, marriage, and the steady companionship of James P. Batch. Their dinners, movies, and Saturday-night ... Read more

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Gaslight Sonatas traces the private hungers of city people who live on the edge of hope, where love, work, and luck can all turn cruelly fragile. In one thread, Gertie Slayback, a lonely New York shop girl, transforms the drudgery of rooming-house life and factory routine into a dream of home, marriage, and the steady companionship of James P. Batch. Their dinners, movies, and Saturday-night
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Humoresque

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From the crowded, music-saturated streets of New York's Lower East Side to concert halls and drawing rooms, these intertwined scenes trace the rise of a gifted immigrant child and the women who shape, shelter, and suffer for him. In Abrahm Kantor's tenement brass shop, where family life and labor share the same cramped air, young Leon's birthday plea for a violin turns a noisy household into a ... Read more

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From the crowded, music-saturated streets of New York's Lower East Side to concert halls and drawing rooms, these intertwined scenes trace the rise of a gifted immigrant child and the women who shape, shelter, and suffer for him. In Abrahm Kantor's tenement brass shop, where family life and labor share the same cramped air, young Leon's birthday plea for a violin turns a noisy household into a
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Fannie Hurst: The Best Works

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The Best Works of Fannie HurstEvery Soul Hath Its SongGaslight SonatasHumoresqueJust Around the CornerStar-DustThe Sturdy OakThe Vertical City ... Read more

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The Best Works of Fannie HurstEvery Soul Hath Its SongGaslight SonatasHumoresqueJust Around the CornerStar-DustThe Sturdy OakThe Vertical City
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Fannie Hurst – The Major Collection

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The Works of Fannie HurstEvery Soul Hath Its SongGaslight SonatasHumoresqueJust Around the CornerStar-DustThe Sturdy OakThe Vertical City ... Read more

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The Works of Fannie HurstEvery Soul Hath Its SongGaslight SonatasHumoresqueJust Around the CornerStar-DustThe Sturdy OakThe Vertical City
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The Vertical City

by Fannie Hurst ...

"The Vertical City" explores the lives of various characters residing in a high-rise apartment building. The novel delves into the complexities of urban life, focusing on the diverse residents and their interconnected stories. It portrays the struggles, ambitions, and relationships of people from different backgrounds living in the bustling metropolis.Fannie Hurst was recognized for her ability to ... Read more

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"The Vertical City" explores the lives of various characters residing in a high-rise apartment building. The novel delves into the complexities of urban life, focusing on the diverse residents and their interconnected stories. It portrays the struggles, ambitions, and relationships of people from different backgrounds living in the bustling metropolis.Fannie Hurst was recognized for her ability to
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Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl

by Fannie Hurst ...

The novel likely follows the life of a young American woman and her journey, highlighting her experiences, challenges, and aspirations in early 20th-century America. Fannie Hurst was known for her insightful portrayals of women's lives, relationships, and societal expectations, and "Star-Dust" is expected to explore similar themes.While specific plot details for "Star-Dust: A Story of an American ... Read more

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The novel likely follows the life of a young American woman and her journey, highlighting her experiences, challenges, and aspirations in early 20th-century America. Fannie Hurst was known for her insightful portrayals of women's lives, relationships, and societal expectations, and "Star-Dust" is expected to explore similar themes.While specific plot details for "Star-Dust: A Story of an American
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Star-Dust

An American Girl's Journey Through Female Ambition, Courtship, Assimilation, and Urban Social Realism

by Fannie Hurst ...

Fannie Hurst's *Star-Dust* is a socially observant novel of aspiration, desire, and the precarious pursuit of self-invention in modern America. Hurst examines the pressures exerted by class, gender, family expectation, and economic circumstance, presenting private emotion against the larger transformations of urban life. Her prose combines sentimental intensity with sharply documentary detail: ... Read more

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Fannie Hurst's *Star-Dust* is a socially observant novel of aspiration, desire, and the precarious pursuit of self-invention in modern America. Hurst examines the pressures exerted by class, gender, family expectation, and economic circumstance, presenting private emotion against the larger transformations of urban life. Her prose combines sentimental intensity with sharply documentary detail:
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