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The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner | |
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About 397 pages (118,965 words) in 16 products |
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 The Wide, Wide World Information
3,792 words, approx. 13 pages
 The Wide, Wide World is an 1852 novel by Susan Warner, published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. It is often acclaimed as America's first bestseller, and has been both heralded and debated since its release as a landmark piece of feminist and... 
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 Strings The wide, wide world of Scheinman
05/01/2003: 334 words, approx. 1 pages She isn't a household name-unless your house happens to be a converted loft on the hip side of town-but JENNY SCHEINMAN, 29, is one of the most listened-to violinists around thanks to her recent contribution to the chart-topping cafe jazz album Come Away with... summary from source:
The Boston Globe A wide world for McKay
04/26/1996: 883 words, approx. 3 pages 'The good old days" are largely a myth, but there is truth in the phrase when it comes to televised sports. Jim McKay is proof of that. McKay will be front and center Sunday when ABC stages a two-hour celebration (Channel 5, 4-6...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jan L. Argersinger
12,162 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following excerpt, Argersinger probes Warner's use of “authorial seduction” in The Wide, Wide World, a process of subtly eroticizing familial and power relations in the novel so as to draw in readers.
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Critical Essay by Sara E. Quay
9,868 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Quay relates Warner's use of nostalgia and loss in The Wide, Wide World to emerging nineteenth-century middle-class consumerism.
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Critical Essay by Suzanne M. Ashworth
9,471 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following excerpt, Ashworth explains the thematic significance of Ellen's voracious reading and finds that this characteristic is an important mechanism of identity construction in The Wide, Wide World.
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The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner | |
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About 397 pages (118,965 words) in 16 products |
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