Betty MacDonald

The Audiobook:Chronologically, this book takes place after her misadventures on a chicken ranch—the subject of Betty’s first book, The Egg and I—and before her account of a year spent in a tuberculosis sanatorium, recounted in The Plague and I (both...

"Jeg sagde: "Men kære Mary, jeg har ikke anelse om stenografi og kan højst skrive 20 ord på maskine i minuttet." Mary plantede sin kaffekop hårdt i underkoppen og så stift på mig med gnistrende øjne. "Overlad du roligt de 90 ord på skrivemaskinen og...

The war created nearly insoluble housing problems in Seattle, so when Betty MacDonald remarried during it, she and her new husband, Don, were unable to find anything suitable. They turned to the small islands within commuting distance, but tours of...

"The Egg and I" took first America by storm in 1945, selling over 1,000,000 within ten months of it's original publication. Betty MacDonald's first book about her adventures as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington...

Thanks to vaccines, tuberculosis is rare in North America today and, thanks to antibiotics, relatively treatable. This wasn’t the case in 1938, when Betty MacDonald was diagnosed.“Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read. But then each time I read The...