The Gates Ajar

Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343659298

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Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLFEZ

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Author : Elizabeth Stuary Phelps
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513284941

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After receiving news that her closest brother has been shot and killed while fighting in the Civil War, Mary Cabot is distraught. Having lost the majority of her family, Mary is left feeling alone and helpless. She seeks solace in the church, her neighbors, and friends, but is unable to find the comfort she needs. Becoming more reserved and losing her faith, Mary is relieved when her widowed aunt, Winnifred, and young cousin from Kansas decide to visit her in Massachusetts. As the women strengthen their bond and share conversations on their trauma, Winniefred offers a new perspective, describing her understanding and vision of heaven. Despite its divergence from the traditional Christian idea of the afterlife, Mary begins to heal, unaware that more hardships are around the corner. First published over one-hundred and fifty years ago in 1868, The Gates Ajar established author Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ career, earning her fame and recognition for her emotional and reflective spiritualist novel. Inspired by her own experience of losing loved one to the Civil War, Phelps wrote The Gates Ajar to assuage the pain of death in ways the Christian church was not providing. Quickly rising to fame, The Gates Ajar sold thousands of copies and inspired a new vision of heaven that really resonated with its audience, leading to references in music, literature, and even floral arrangements. With sympathetic characters, a relatable plot, and gorgeous imagery, The Gates Ajar remains to stimulate modern readers and addresses timeless topics that remain approachable and relevant. This edition of The Gates Ajar by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps features an eye-catching new cover design and is presented in a font that is both modern and readable. With these accommodations, this edition is accessible and appealing to contemporary audiences, restoring The Gates Ajar to modern standards while preserving the original intelligence and impact of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ work.

Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810140448

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Trixy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Pdf

Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten American author and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The book decries the then common practice of vivisection, or scientific experiments on live animals. In Trixy, contemporary readers can trace the roots of the early animal rights movement in Phelps’s influential campaign to introduce legislation to regulate or end this practice. Phelps not only presents a narrative polemic against the cruelty of vivisection but argues that training young doctors in it makes them bad physicians. Emily E. VanDette’s introduction demonstrates that Phelps’s protest writing, which included fiction, pamphlets, essays, and speeches, was well ahead of its time. Though not well known today, Phelps’s 1868 spiritualist novel, The Gates Ajar, which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to readers traumatized by the Civil War, was the century’s second best-selling American novel, surpassed only by Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Recently scholars and readers have begun to reexamine Phelps’s significance. As contemporary authors, including Peter Singer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Donna J. Haraway, Gary L. Francione, and Carol J. Adams, have extended her vision, they have also created new audiences for her work.

Author : Elizabeth Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520701373

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The Gates Ajar by Elizabeth Phelps Pdf

The Gates Ajar is an 1868 religious novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (later Elizabeth Phelps Ward) that was immensely popular following its publication. It was the second best-selling religious novel of the 19th century. 80,000 copies were sold in America by 1900; 100,000 were sold in England during the same time period. Sequels Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) were also bestsellers, and the three together are referred to as the author's "Spiritualist novels."The novel is presented like a diary by its main protagonist, Mary Cabot, who mourns the death of her brother Royal. Much of the plot is presented as a dialogue about the afterlife between the two women. The novel represents heaven as being similar to Earth (but better). In contrast with traditions of Calvinism, Phelps's version of heaven is corporeal where the dead have "spiritual bodies", live in houses, raise families, and participate in various activities. The idea was not original to Phelps; at least one earlier book, the anonymous Heaven Our Home, was advertising as early as 1863 about its vision of "a Social Heaven in which there will be the most Perfect Recognition, Intercourse, Fellowship, and Bliss.

Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861363

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The Opium War, 1840-1842 by Peter Ward Fay Pdf

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe-- the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China." Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India to the point of consumption in China and the first to give both Protestant and Catholic missionaries their due; it remains the most comprehensive account of the first Opium War through western eyes. In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history.

Author : E. Stuart Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290095647

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Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:46360309

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The Gates Ajar by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Pdf

Author : James D. Hart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520327078

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The Popular Book by James D. Hart Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600071703

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The gates ajar, ed. by author of 'Alwyn Morton'. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Pdf

Author : Sabaa Tahir
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780448494524

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A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir Pdf

BOOK THREE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES "Thrilling and hard to put down, readers will absolutely devour Tahir's latest." --BuzzFeed An Entertainment Weekly Summer Reads pick! "The perfect summer read." --The Washington Post The highly anticipated third book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir's EMBER QUARTET. Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. But she knows that danger lurks on all sides: Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor's volatility to grow her own power--regardless of the carnage she leaves in her path. Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows the fate of the world lies not in the machinations of the Martial court, but in stopping the Nightbringer. But in the hunt to bring him down, Laia faces unexpected threats from those she hoped would help her, and is drawn into a battle she never thought she'd have to fight. And in the land between the living and the dead, Elias Veturius has given up his freedom to serve as Soul Catcher. But in doing so, he has vowed himself to an ancient power that demands his complete surrender--even if that means abandoning the woman he loves.

Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79834653

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Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6D2E

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The Gates Ajar by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Pdf

Author : Dorothy Height
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786739752

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Open Wide The Freedom Gates by Dorothy Height Pdf

Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition -- until now. In her memoir, Dr. Height, now ninety-one, reflects on a life of service and leadership. We witness her childhood encounters with racism and the thrill of New York college life during the Harlem Renaissance. We see her protest against lynchings. We sit with her onstage as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. We meet people she knew intimately throughout the decades: W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell Sr., Langston Hughes, and many others. And we watch as she leads the National Council of Negro Women for forty-one years, her diplomatic counsel sought by U.S. Presidents from Eisenhower to Clinton. After the fierce battles of the 1960s, Dr. Height concentrates on troubled black communities, on issues like rural poverty, teen pregnancy and black family values. In 1994, her efforts are officially recognized. Along with Rosa Parks, she receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Author : Elizabeth Stuart Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Heaven
ISBN : OCLC:504970547

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