Glaspell’s first story collection, from 1912, draws on her years as a newspaper reporter in Des Moines. An American woman struggles with her French in a Paris shop while a bulky countryman listens, a young man makes a plea for a condemned prisoner, and a reporter at the statehouse finds his duty in the corridor, in stories that lift the public mask to show the person beneath.
Early work by the Pulitzer-winning author of Trifles and ‘A Jury of Her Peers’. Download the free EPUB.