Bartley Alexander is a famous builder of bridges, married to a cultivated Boston wife and at the height of his powers. On a working trip to London he meets again Hilda Burgoyne, the Irish actress he loved in his youth, and begins a double life that strains him as surely as stress strains steel.
Cather’s first novel, published in 1912, is a short, controlled study of divided loyalty that shows the novelist of My Ántonia taking shape. Download the free EPUB.