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Language
English
Description
"Spanning a wide range of distinct perspectives, voices, styles, and settings, the ten shimmering stories in Happy Like This offer lyrical, deeply felt, often humorous meditations on the complexity of choice and the ambiguity of happiness. Two identical twins watch their bodies and lives diverge as one of them takes up competitive bodybuilding. A part-time mermaid struggles with her fluid sexuality and turbulent romantic past when she finds herself...
Author
Series
Riverside library for young people volume 14
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
1903
Edition
rev. and enl. ed., 10th ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 478 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1911, c1910
Physical Desc
xvii, 462 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1889, while many Americans were disdainful of newly arrived immigrants, Jane Addams established Hull-House as a refuge for Chicago's poor. The settlement house provided an unprecedented variety of social services. In this inspiring autobiography, Addams chronicles the institution's early years and discusses the ever-relevant philosophy of social justice that served as its foundation. Addams, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her philanthropic...