Gerty Bridewell wakes each morning to a marriage that bores her and a round of New York society that does not. Through her circle moves the poet Laura Wilde, an idealist raised in an old-fashioned household, who must choose between a dazzling but faithless man and the friendship of the editor Roger Adams, as Glasgow examines love, ambition and the search for something lasting.
A thoughtful 1906 novel by the Virginian author best known for Barren Ground, unusually set in Manhattan. Download the free EPUB.