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The late George Apley : a novel in the form of a memoir / by John P. Marquand.
LIBRA - Special PS3525.A6695 L28 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Upper class families--Fiction.
- Upper class families.
- Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Rich people--Fiction.
- Rich people.
- Socialites--Fiction.
- Socialites.
- Psychological fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 354 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Back Bay paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Back Bay Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- Featuring a new introduction, this contemporary satire of turn-of-the-century Boston, which was awarded the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction in 1938, traces the life of George Apley, a wealthy businessman who sacrifices his individuality to social custom and tradition.
- Contents:
- Foreword and apology
- Family background
- Parents
- Boyhood scene
- Beacon Street and school days
- Revealing memories
- Harvard days
- Interlude
- Europe
- Law school
- Marriage
- Achievement
- Problems
- Added burdens
- Pequod Island days
- Portrait of a gentleman
- Parenthood and bird lore
- Solitude
- Harvard again, and England
- War days
- War strikes home
- William Apley
- Parent's vigil
- Son at the front
- Broken barriers
- New impacts
- Turbulent twenties
- Crisis
- Ring in the new
- Last pilgrimage
- House in order.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has different LCCN printed on t.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0316735671
- 9780316735674
- OCLC:
- 56531951
- Online:
- Publisher description
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