- Drama, Fiction, Inheritance and succession, Pulitzer Prize Winner
From back cover of Washington Square Press paperback January 1970:
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Classical in form, nostalgic, warm and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 354
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, Dramatists Play Service Inc., Independent Publisher
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- English, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9780316735674
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“GEORGE WILLIAM APLEY was born in the house of his maternal grandfather, William Leeds Hancock, on the steeper part of Mount Venon Street, on Beacon Hill, on January 25, 1866.”
John Phillips Marquand was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it. Marquand treated those whose lives were bound by these unwritten codes with a characteristic mix of respect and satire. - Wikipedia
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