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_aParker, Dudrea, _d1883-1972 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aPig iron |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-06-26 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aAn ephemeral love -- The white petal -- The reporter. | |
| 508 | _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) | ||
| 520 | _a"Pig iron : Short stories by Dudrea Parker" is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book turns on love, temptation, conscience, and the costs of choice, following characters who collide with desire and duty in modern American life. In An Ephemeral Love, Baltimore lumberman Walter Gary risks everything on a clever shipping plan, wins prosperity, and plans to marry Betty, who is simultaneously drawn to the magnetic Jack; on the brink of betrayal, the influenza epidemic claims Walter, and Betty, seared by loss, renounces her infatuation and holds fast to his memory. The White Petal shifts to a gothic rescue: John Constable returns to find young Ellen, daughter of his lost friends, imprisoned by her predatory uncle Albert, escapes with her through the night after a chilling “thirteenth” stroke of the clock, and witnesses Albert’s self-destruction; Constable becomes her guardian, and their bond blossoms into love. The Reporter follows a novice journalist who intrudes on Professor Symonds after his wife’s elopement ends in double tragedy; moved by his candor and pain, she refuses to exploit the scandal, and their shared integrity leads to a tender, restorative marriage. Across the three tales, Parker traces how crisis burns away illusion, revealing character, compassion, and the possibility of redeemed love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBaltimore: The Norman Remington Company, 1921 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories, American | ||
| 653 | _aAmerican fiction -- 20th century | ||
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