Author

Contributions

  • Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor

Publication

1940 - Sun Dial Press, Garden City, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

173,750 words, Guess

Page Count

695 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPS3545.O337 W4 1940

Description

George Webber, a man raised and schooled in the south, moves to New York City where he aspires to become a successful writer, but his ambition is sidetracked when he becomes tragically obsessed with the beautiful, wealthy, and married socialite Esther Jack.

First Sentence

UP TO THE TIME GEORGE WEBBER'S FATHER DIED, THERE WERE SOME UNforgiving souls in the town of Libya Hill who spoke of him as a man who not only had deserted his wife and child, but had consummated his iniquity by going off to live with another woman.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The web and the rockSun Dial Press1940-01-01

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