- Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction
New York City, the year before Pearl Harbor. The four Melendy children and their father -- a brilliant, impecunious scholar and lecturer -- live in a dilapidated house in the city, under the care of a strict but loving housekeeper.
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Earnest, classical in form, warm and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Elizabeth Enright
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 175
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., H. Holt, Turtleback
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780140383959
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Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham (September 17, 1907 – June 8, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of Thimble Summer (1938) and the Newbery runner-up Gone-Away Lake (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951). A Newbery Medal laureate and a multiple winner of the O. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Enright
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