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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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. ..." |
 | | 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" |
 | | 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." |
 | | Apostles of Light(1st Edition) (Banner Books) by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer Paperback, 307 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-738-2, ISBN: 0-87805-738-2 "The elderly couple in this fine novel, a retired schoolteacher and the doctor with whom she has had a lifelong, tender love affair, find that, almost by accident, they have forfeited control of their own lives. Trapped in a nursing home, they are the victims of the biblical "apostles of light," the deceitful do-gooders who profess righteousness. In subtle, elegant prose Ellen Douglas recounts a gripping story of their brave attempt to f ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 |
 | | A Lifetime Burning A Novel by Ellen Douglas, 1921-2012. Hardcover, Published 1982 by New York: Random House, 1982. ISBN-13: 978-0-394-52719-2, ISBN: 0-394-52719-4 |
 | | The Magic Carpet and Other Tales(1st Edition) by Ellen Douglas, Walter Anderson, Walter Inglis Anderson Hardcover, 186 Pages, Published 1987 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-327-8, ISBN: 0-87805-327-1 "The fabulous illustrations of Walter Anderson brought forth this brilliant retelling of twenty tales from world literature, a book first published in 1987 and now back into print at the demand of appreciators of Ellen Douglas's fiction and of Anderson's art. Here for a wide range of readers Douglas recounts fairy tales, classical stories, myths, and adventure stories that inspired Anderson to create these enchanting pictures. Douglas's ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 |
 | | The Rock Cried Out A Novel by Ellen Douglas Hardcover, Published 1979 by New York And London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1979. ISBN-13: 978-0-15-178322-9, ISBN: 0-15-178322-5 |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Where the Dreams Cross (Voices of the South) by Ellen Douglas Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2639-4, ISBN: 0-8071-2639-X "Book by Douglas, Ellen" |
 | | Apostles of Light A Novel by Ellen Douglas, 1921-2012. Hardcover, Published 1973 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-15473-1, ISBN: 0-395-15473-1 |
 | | Oakleigh Classic Reprint by Ellen Douglas Deland Hardcover, Published by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-484-15470-3, ISBN: 0-484-15470-2 |
 | | Miss Betty of New York Classic Reprint by Ellen Douglas Deland Hardcover, Published by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-483-69525-2, ISBN: 0-483-69525-4 |
 | | A Successful Venture (Classic Reprint) by Ellen Douglas Deland Published by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-483-99282-5, ISBN: 0-483-99282-8 |
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