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Early Autumn

First published: 1926
Pages: 239

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Set in an old, wealthy New England family whose fortunes and vitality are slowly draining away, this novel follows Olivia Pentland, a woman who married into the Pentlands and now feels the whole weight of their pride and buried secrets pressing down on her. Bromfield uses the household near Boston as a portrait of a class that has mistaken rigidity for strength, its Puritan past curdled into empty ceremony. Against that airless world, Olivia's late awakening to her own desires and choices carries a real, quiet force. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 and stands with the best of Bromfield's early fiction about American character and the price of respectability. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.

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Louis Bromfield

Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) was an American novelist and, later, a pioneering conservationist farmer. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 and enjoyed wide popularity through the 1920s and 1930s before turning to agriculture at his Malabar Farm in Ohio, where he championed sustainable soil practices.

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