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Across the Years

Eleanor H. Porter

Book Overview: 

These 18 wonderful short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of Pollyanna, deal with those marvelous and maddeningly frustrating creatures: human beings. As always, Porter describes real people with sensitivity and an insight into all of their variety that makes you say "I knew someone just like that". She is able to capture the faded, but not quite extinguished, dreams of the elderly and the bright hopes of youth. The theme of this collection is how we humans deal with life and love throughout our lives, "Across the Years", no matter where we are or what era we live in.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .In frantic haste he turned and twisted and shoved and pulled, ending with so sudden an application of the brakes that Diantha nearly shot head first out of the car as it stopped.

“Why, why--Phineas!” she cried a little sharply.

Phineas swallowed the lump in his throat and steadied himself in his seat.

“Ye see I--I can stop her real quick if I want to,” he explained jauntily. “Ye can do ‘most anythin’ with these ’ere things if ye only know how, Dianthy. Didn’t we come slick?”

“Yes, indeed,” stammered Diantha, hastily smoothing out the frown on her face and summoning a smile to her lips--not for her best black silk gown would she have had Phineas know that she was wishing herself safe at home and the automobile back where it came from.

“We’ll go home through the Holler,” said Phineas, after she had retied her veil and they were ready . . . Read More