Betty Macdonald

The Plague and I

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Produktbeschreibung

Betty MacDonald (1907¿1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children¿s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. The Plague and I takes up Betty¿s delightful misadventures where The Egg and I left off. She continued chronicling her life story with memoirs Anybody Can Do Anything and finally Onions in the Stew. She lived on Vashon Island in Washington¿s Puget Sound.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780295999784
• ISBN-10: 0295999780
• Artikelnr.: 45002251

Autorenporträt

Northwest writer Betty MacDonald (1907-1958) is best known for her entertaining and successful 1945 memoir The Egg and I, about moving to the Olympic Peninsula with her new husband and attempting to raise chickens, as well as her subsequent Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books for children.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
2. I Have a Little Shadow-Who Don't?
3. "Good-bye, Good-bye to Everything!"
4. All New Patients Must First Be Boiled
5. Oh, Salvadora! Don't Spit on the Floora
6. Anybody Can Have Tuberculosis
7. Heavy, Heavy Hangs on Our Hands
8. I'm Cold and So Is the Attitude of the Staff
9. Kimi
10. A Smile or a Scar
11. Deck the Halls with Old Crepe Paper! Tra, La, La, La, La, Lala, La, La!
12. Occupational Therapy
13. My Operation
14. Ambulant Hospital
15. Eight Hours Up
16. A Toecover and How It Breeds
17. Privileges
18. "Let Me Out! Let Me Out!"
19. "Whom's with Who?"