Mitchell warns in his preface that this village chronicle has many people and little plot. Westways is a Pennsylvania ironworking village before the Civil War, where class lines are quietly accepted and the Penhallow family stands at the top. Young men head for West Point and the mills, friendships and courtships cross and recross, and then the war arrives to scatter them.
A late novel by the Philadelphia physician-author, rich in the social texture of small-town Pennsylvania in the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.
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