On Harvard Class Day, amid the dancing in the Hemenway Gymnasium, the cheerful young Dan Mavering falls for Alice Pasmer, an earnest and exacting Boston girl. Howells follows their engagement through misunderstandings, quarrels and reconciliations, watching closely how two well-meaning people with very different natures try to fit their lives together.
A sharp, quietly comic study of young love from the great American realist, with plenty to say about marriage. Download the free EPUB.