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"First published in the United States...1920"--T.p. verso Penguin twentieth-century classics ed.

The novel gives an excellent picture of New York "society" in the 1870's, the age of propriety and inexorable convention and of clan spirit and tribal solidarity in support of prescribed amenities. A woman who has incurred scandal is loved by a man who has sufficient vision to penetrate the crust of conventionality but has not quite the courage to break with the conventions.

Pulitzer Prize, 1921.