- Fiction, History, Large type books, Connecticut, fiction
Pictures the life of wealthy aristocrats on a large Connecticut estate in 1700, the decline of the estate by 1890 and the possibility of its revival in 1930.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Edna Ferber
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- Heinemann, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Doubleday, Doran
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385040143
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About Edna Ferber · 1885–1968
American novelist, short story writer and playwright
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