Dorinda Oakley, the girl in an orange shawl at the window of Pedlar’s store, grows up on a poor farm in the Virginia Piedmont, where broomsedge creeps over the abandoned fields. Betrayed in love, she sets out to wrest a life from the barren ground by will and work.
Often counted Glasgow’s finest novel, and one of the great works of Southern realism. Download the free EPUB.