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In his debut novel, Winifred, Charles Souby tells the story of a despondent, cynical, middle aged widower who finds salvation and a reason for living in the unlikely form of a young woman struggling with drug addiction, among other demons. What looks to be a May-December romance gets turned on its ears by a stunning revelation. Instead, Winifred is an unconventional love story filled with shocking twists and turns. With empathy for its troubled characters, Winfred unfolds a complicated human drama raising questions about fate and the true meaning of family.
A governess is sent by an employment afency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamourous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Richard's Quixotry. URING the terrible days of the Commune Winifred had lived in a kind of lurid dream. She was not a politician, far less a partisan, and if asked a month earlier with which men or tendencies in distracted France her sympathies went, she would most assuredly have been puzzled to answer. But she was too generous not to be stirred to pity in the inevitable hour when the aspirations of the people were bartered by the selfish and the mean; their sacred watchwords caught up by lying lips, and their purest enthusiasmssuffocated by treachery and greed. She felt all the tragedy of that cruel failure which awaits the effort that has outstripped the age; and her heart was wrung with compassion for the sons and daughters of toil, who, after suffering from generation to generation, and sinning in one brief hour of mistaken hope, turned anew to face the grim reality of wretchedness, and learnt that their sufferings were to be forgotten and only their sins remembered. She came home one day in a state of great excitement. ' It is hard, ' she cried passionately; startling- Martha at her patient work of bandage-making. ' You remember Anatole ?' ' That nice-looking young joiner you had in once to do some work ? Did I not hear that he had joined the Commune God help him ' answered Martha. ' He was veiy enthusiastic and eloquent. I suppose he really believed in a social millennium. I am sure he was single-minded, ' said Vol. in. 43 Winifred, riding full tilt at the windmill of unspoken attack. ' And he was as tender as a woman to his poor old bedridden mother.' ' And has he been killed ?' ' No; but arrested. And he will be deporte. And when he comes back, if he lives to come back, he will be ruined in mind and soul and body.' Mart...
Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his magazine, The American Mercury, many of Sanford’s stories were set during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s and 1930s and offer a unique perspective on life in the boomtowns during that period. Four of her stories were included in The Best American Short Stories of 1926. Questioning the sudden end to Sanford’s writing career, Wiesepape, a leading literary historian of Texas women writers, delved into the author’s previously unexamined private papers and emerged with an insightful and revealing study that sheds light on both Sanford’s abbreviated career and the domestic lives of women at the time. The first in-depth account of Sanford’s life and work, Wiesepape’s biography discusses Sanford’s fiction through the lens of the sociohistorical contexts that shaped and inspired it. In addition, Wiesepape has included two previously unpublished stories as well as eighteen previously unpublished letters to Sanford from Mencken. Winifred Sanford is an illuminating biography of one of the state’s unsung literary jewels and an important and much-needed addition to the often overlooked field of Texas women’s writing.