Bartley Hubbard, a charming, unscrupulous young newspaperman, marries Marcia Gaylord, the passionate daughter of a Maine village lawyer. In Boston his ambitions and her jealousy wear the marriage down, while their friend Ben Halleck watches with a feeling he dare not name, and Howells follows the couple toward a divorce court.
One of the first American novels to treat divorce seriously, and a cornerstone of Howells’s realism. Download the free EPUB.