num_pages: 192
description: The first volume of reminiscences by one of America's best-loved writers. "Vintage Fisher. . . . (Her diaries and stories) bathe her youth and beauty in a golden light like the stuff of Gustave Dore engravings, the light of a better place and a better time when people were still made out of heroics."--Washington Post Book World.To Begin --1. Native Truths (1908-1952) --2. On Coveting (1912) --3. Tree Change (1912-1929) --4. A Few Notes About Aunt Gwen (1912-1927) --5. The First Kitchen (1912-1920) --6. An Innocence of Semantics (1912-1915) --7. Grandmother's Nervous Stomach (1913-1920) --8. I Chose Chicken a la King (1914-1920) --9. Mother and "Miss E " (1914-1945) --10. A Sweet and Timeless Shudder (1915-1953) --11. The Old Woman (1915-1916) --12. Gracie (1915-1921) --13. My Family's Escape Hatch: A Reminiscence (1915-1926) --14. The Broken Chain (1920) --15. Consider the End (1920) --16. Hellfire and All That (1922) --17. The Jackstraws (1922) --18. Tally (1923, 1928-1953) --19. Ridicklus (1924) --20. Mirrors and Salamanders (1927) --21. Figures in a Private Landscape. I. Laguna, 1927: Journal. II. Uncle Evans (1927). III. Examination Books: Biology 9 (1927-1928). IV. Oxy (1928-1934).
language: English
title: To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929
titlecomplete: To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908-1929
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Food Writing, Food
ratings_count: 106
publisher: Pantheon