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Books by Ellen Douglas
  | | Can't Quit You, Baby(Reprint) (Contemporary American Fiction) by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-012102-5, ISBN: 0-14-012102-1 "“It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.” – The Boston Globe Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden ..." |
 | | A Lifetime Burning(Reprint) (Banner Books Series) by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-601-9, ISBN: 1-61703-601-3 "So spontaneous is the writing in A Lifetime Burning, one might believe these are indeed words of a woman desperately trying to understand what has happened to her life, beginning with the fact that her husband has stopped sleeping with her. Why? Is there a rival--perhaps "The Toad," the unattractive housewife next door--or someone else, who will completely surprise the reader, as do many of the events of the protagonist's story? At age ..." |
 | | Where the Dreams Cross (Banner Books Series) by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-599-9, ISBN: 1-61703-599-8 "Nat Stonebridge is a thirtyish divorcee who, because of her sexy good looks and incorruptible disregard for convention, has stayed in trouble most of her life. Stranded at home in Philippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, after a divorce from her well-to-do husband, she is broke, bored, and unconcerned for anyone except herself. Looking for excitement, she becomes involved with Floyd Shotwell, the strange, solitary son of a rich ..." |
 | | A Family's Affairs (Voices of the South) by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 442 Pages, Published 1997 by Louisiana State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2163-4, ISBN: 0-8071-2163-0 "Alice Major, come look at my cake.' "And Alice Major came out of the kitchen and looked at the cake and she said, 'My Gawd, Miss Kate. It's mint' "And Gran said, ' Will did it. Come here to me, Will Anderson.' "But Will didn't answer. He knew better. " 'Now, Miss Kate,' Alice Major said, 'he ain't nothing but a baby. He don't know no better.' (Alice Major always took our part, and specially Will's. He was her favorite.) "But Gran sa ..." |
 | | Voices of the South A Lifetime Burning by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1995 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2007-1, ISBN: 0-8071-2007-3 "Gripping, smart, suspenseful, and at times, wonderfully witty, Douglas's widely acclaimed novel forms a searching and searing record of love, anger, confession and discovery." |
 | | The Rock Cried Out (Banner Books) by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-603-3, ISBN: 1-61703-603-X "“Alan, hush,” Miriam said, and then, to Lee, quietly, “You're probably right, but even if you're not, it doesn't matter anymore. It was all a long time ago. You were a child. If it happened, it happened to people who are dead.” “Do you know what it's ..." |
 | | Truth(Reprint) Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Plume ISBN-13: 978-0-452-28102-8, ISBN: 0-452-28102-4 ""It is impossible to make sense out of stories that purport to be true," Ellen Douglas writes in the recollections she titles, perhaps ironically, Truth. "Something is always missing. To give them form, extract their deepest meaning, one has to turn them into fiction, to find causes, or if, as is usually the case, causes are unfindable, one has to invent them." But in these four anecdotes taken from her family's past, Douglas is determi ..." |
 | | The Rock Cried Out by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 303 Pages, Published 1994 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1931-0, ISBN: 0-8071-1931-8 "After several years in the North, a young man returns to his native Mississippi seeking peace but is inexorably drawn back to the civil rights turbulence of 1964" |
 | | New Stories from the South 2000 The Year's Best by Shannon Ravenel, Ellen Douglas Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Algonquin Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-295-6, ISBN: 1-56512-295-X " Whether it's the bodybuilder who picks up energy in the air, the rich girl who sees potential in the beer-drinking factory worker at her father's cardboard plant, the girl who turns against her evangelist father to find the real Jesus, the aunt with a withered arm who may have influenced Flannery O'Connor, the feminist scholar trying to reason with a good old boy, or the young MFA student determined to write a good story, this year's c ..." |
 | | Witnessing(1st Edition) by Ellen Douglas, 1921-2012. Hardcover, 198 Pages, Published 2004 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-670-4, ISBN: 1-57806-670-0 "In prize-winning fiction and nonfiction of searching power, compassion, and wit, for more than forty years Ellen Douglas has been exploring the lives of Southerners, the prosperous and the poor, white and black, male and female. No living writer has told stories that represent with more persuasive moral intelligence the variousness of experience in the intricate world where she has been a lifelong witness of public and personal history. ..." |
 | | Banner Bks. A Lifetime Burning by Ellen Douglas 212 Pages, Published 2012 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-602-6, ISBN: 1-61703-602-1 "He danced around Lee on his short, thin legs, saying, “Ho, ho, Lee. Ho, ho,” in a voice like a department store Santa Claus's. “I couldn't think of anything to do but laugh,” he told me afterwards. Lee said that he was aware the smell was getting ..." |
 | | Banner Books Apostles of Light by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer 332 Pages, Published 2011 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-347-6, ISBN: 1-61703-347-2 "First published in 1973 by Houghton Mifflin Company Copyright © Ellen Douglas Introduction Copyright © 1994 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 97 96 95 94 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging- ..." |
 | | Clyde Corners by Deland, Ellen Douglas Trade Paperback, Published 2016 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-334-12647-5, ISBN: 1-334-12647-X |
 | | Cyntra by Deland, Ellen Douglas Trade Paperback, Published 2016 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-334-12229-3, ISBN: 1-334-12229-6 |
 | | The Friendship of Anne A Story (Classic Reprint) by Ellen Douglas Deland Paperback, Published 2016 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-334-39143-9, ISBN: 1-334-39143-2 |
 | | Katrina by Deland, Ellen Douglas Trade Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2016 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-334-14350-2, ISBN: 1-334-14350-1 |
 | | Truth Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell by Ellen Douglas 221 Pages, Published 1998 by Algonquin Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-899-6, ISBN: 1-56512-899-0 "It's about the truth in fiction and the fiction in "truth." Praise for Ellen Douglas: "It's possible to think that some people were simply born to write. Ellen Douglas is just such a writer." |
 | | Apostles of Light A Novel (Banner Books) by Ellen Douglas, Introduction-Elizabeth Spencer Hardcover, 307 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-737-5, ISBN: 0-87805-737-4 "A spellbinding novel named as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973. A Banner Book." |
 | | The Rock Cried Out. Virago Modern Classic No. 351 by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1990 by Virago Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85381-140-1, ISBN: 1-85381-140-8 |
 | | Can't Quit You, Baby(1st Edition) (Signed First Edition) by Ellen Douglas, 1921-2012. Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1988 by New York : Atheneum ISBN-13: 978-0-689-11793-0, ISBN: 0-689-11793-0 |
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