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Louis Bromfield
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A forthright woman disrupts the social order of upper crust New England in this Pulitzer Prize—winning family saga.
Tracing their lineage back to its colonial founders, the Pentland family of Durham, Massachusetts, is committed to preserving the "old ways." But time has its own way of moving restlessly forward. Patriarch John Pentland never understood why his niece Sabine married a man so beneath them. Now, after escaping to Europe twenty years...
2) Early Autumn
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English
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Excerpt: "There was a ball in the old Pentland house because for the first time in nearly forty years there was a young girl in the family to be introduced to the polite world of Boston and to the elect who had been asked to come on from New York and Philadelphia. So the old house was all bedizened with lanterns and bunches of late spring flowers, and in the bare, white-painted, dignified hallway a negro band, hidden discreetly by flowers, sat making...
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First published in 1928 by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, now public domain in the US and Canada. Dive into the intriguing narrative of "The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg" by Louis Bromfield. This novel weaves a tale around the enigmatic Miss Annie Spragg, unfolding a story that is as mysterious as it is captivating. Uncover the secrets, unravel the mysteries, and immerse yourself in the unique storytelling that defines this literary work....
