Summering at Middlemount, the wealthy, fussy Landers stop at a farmhouse to ask the way and meet Clementina Claxon, a poor, self-possessed country girl. The widowed Mrs. Lander later takes her as a companion, and Clementina’s natural grace is tested by hotel society, suitors and the expatriate drawing rooms of Florence.
A gently ironic study of American innocence abroad by the dean of American realism. Download the free EPUB.