Betty Macdonald

The Plague and I

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Betty MacDonald (1907¿1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children¿s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. The Plague and I takes up Betty¿s delightful misadventures where The Egg and I left off. She continued chronicling her life story with memoirs Anybody Can Do Anything and finally Onions in the Stew. She lived on Vashon Island in Washington¿s Puget Sound.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780295999784
• ISBN-10: 0295999780
• Artikelnr.: 45002251

Autorenporträt

Betty MacDonald

Inhaltsangabe

1. "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
2. I Have a Little Shadow-Who Don't?
3. "Good-bye, Good-bye to Everything!"
4. All New Patients Must First Be Boiled
5. Oh, Salvadora! Don't Spit on the Floora
6. Anybody Can Have Tuberculosis
7. Heavy, Heavy Hangs on Our Hands
8. I'm Cold and So Is the Attitude of the Staff
9. Kimi
10. A Smile or a Scar
11. Deck the Halls with Old Crepe Paper! Tra, La, La, La, La, Lala, La, La!
12. Occupational Therapy
13. My Operation
14. Ambulant Hospital
15. Eight Hours Up
16. A Toecover and How It Breeds
17. Privileges
18. "Let Me Out! Let Me Out!"
19. "Whom's with Who?"