A Poor Wise Man

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Essential Library, 2000 - Fiction - 400 pages

Volume 8 of The Essential Rinehart Collection presents “A Poor Wise Man,” which continues the author’s series of novels examining the effects of the first World War on everyday people. “There were bad times coming. The old peaceful quiet days were gone, for age and obstinacy had met youth and the arrogance of youth, and it was to be a battle.” Birth, death, and renewal are the themes that Mary Roberts Rinehart tackles in this emotional and thought-provoking story.

 

Contents

CHAPTER I
7
CHAPTERV
39
CHAPTER VIII
65
CHAPTER IX
73
5
98
CHAPTER XII
104
CHAPTER XIV
127
CHAPTER XV
138
CHAPTERXXX
272
CHAPTER XXXI
275
CHAPTER XXXII
280
CHAPTER XXXIII
284
CHAPTER XXXIV
286
CHAPTER XXXV
292
CHAPTER XXXVI
297
CHAPTER XXXVII
302

CHAPTER XVI
148
CHAPTER XVII
160
CHAPTER XVIII
168
CHAPTER XIX
180
CHAPTERXX
189
CHAPTER XXII
215
CHAPTER XXIII
224
CHAPTER XXIV
234
CHAPTER XXV
243
CHAPTER XXVI
246
CHAPTER XXVII
251
CHAPTER XXVIII
257
CHAPTER XXIX
264
CHAPTER XXXVIII
312
CHAPTER XXXIX
322
CHAPTER XL
335
CHAPTER XLI
339
CHAPTER XLII
343
CHAPTER XLIII
349
CHAPTERXLV
362
CHAPTER XLVII
371
CHAPTER XLVIII
373
CHAPTER XLIX
377
CHAPTER LI
388
CHAPTER LII
391
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Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1876. While attending Allegheny High School, she received $1 each for three short stories from a Pittsburgh newspaper. After receiving inspiration from a town doctor who happened to be a woman, she developed a curiosity for medicine. She went on to study nursing at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital. After graduating in 1896, she began her writing career. The first of her many mystery stories, The Circular Staircase (1908), established her as a leading writer of the genre; Rinehart and Avery Hopwood successfully dramatized the novel as The Bat (1920). Her other mystery novels include The Man in Lower Ten (1909), The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), The Door (1930), The Yellow Room (1945), and The Swimming Pool (1952). Stories about Tish, a self-reliant spinster, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and were collected into The Best of Tish (1955). She wrote more than 50 books, eight plays, hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Three of her plays were running on Broadway at one time. During World War I, she was the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front. She died September 22, 1958 at the age of 82.

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