Mrs. Cliff's Yacht
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A sudden fortune gives a Maine widow the freedom to buy almost anything, but deciding how to live with it proves more complicated. Mrs. Cliff prepares to return from New York to Plainton, where familiar rooms, old friendships and memories of her husband matter deeply to her. She hopes to enjoy her money while preserving her place among the people she has known for years.
Frank R. Stockton builds this novel around the everyday consequences of unexpected wealth. Plans for an enlarged home and a landscaped park sit alongside questions of hospitality, generosity and social standing. Willy Croup takes a keen interest in entertaining, while Mr. Burke finds a yacht for Mrs. Cliff to inspect in Brooklyn. These domestic details give the prospect of a vessel a personal context. Readers interested in money and community life can follow how new purchasing power changes ordinary decisions and relationships.
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- Frank R. Stockton
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- 194
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- English
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