A ball at the old Pentland house near Boston introduces eighteen-year-old Sybil, just back from school in Paris, to society. Her mother Olivia, married into this proud, decaying family, has lived for years among its secrets and rules, and that summer buried family secrets and the arrival of outsiders force her to weigh duty against her own chance at happiness.
Winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; some of its language about race and heredity reflects the 1920s. Download the free EPUB.