American beauty / Edna Ferber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Connecticut River Valley--History--Fiction.

Connecticut River Valley.

Polish Americans--Fiction.

Polish Americans.

Connecticut--Fiction.

Connecticut.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Fawcett Crest, 1974.

Summary:

Judith Oakes hires a rugged, full-blooded Pole to work her derelict Connecticut Valley estate and finds happiness herself trying to the save the farm - until her cast-off sister's orphaned daughter appears.

Notes:

"Fawcett Crest M2078"--Cover.

"Once the Oakes estate had been the showplace of the Connecticut Valley. But by 1890 the land was starved and barren. All that remained of the proud Oakes line was the spinster Judity, and she herself had faded with the long empty years. Then Ondia Olszak came to work, a rugged, full-blooded Pole with a peasant's natural love for the land. Together they struggled to save the farm. And for the first time in her life, Judith was happy ... until Tamar came. Tamar was the orphaned daughter of Judith's cast-ff siste: an elfin child, beautiful and gay. With her, life returned to the famished land. Life - and passion."--Back cover.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

0449228177

9780449228173

OCLC:

7402344