| Edition |
First Back Bay paperback edition. |
| Description |
354 pages ; 21 cm |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.2 19.0 77494. |
| Subject |
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
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Upper class families -- Fiction.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- Fiction.
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Socialites -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Satire.
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| ISBN |
0316735671 |
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9780316735674 |
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