H The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford

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The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him

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A becalmed yacht gives Mr. Pierce a ready audience for his opinions about romance, modern life and Peter Stirling. He dismisses Peter, the son of a mill foreman, as a man whose upbringing has left him unimaginative. Paul Leicester Ford opens this New York novel with the gap between confident social judgments and the person being judged. Its subjects bring love, political life, tenement housing and the labor movement into the same fictional world.

Peter's feelings for Leonore give that contrast a more intimate shape. After a ride together, he considers joining society more often and responds with delight to her wish that he learn to dance. The dialogue catches hesitation, pride and affection in small exchanges, while the narrator finds humor in outward composure and inward excitement. Readers interested in class assumptions and the overlap between public reputation and private feeling will find both concerns here.

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Paul Leicester Ford

Paul Leicester Ford worked across bibliography, editing, biography, and fiction during a brief career that joined documentary scholarship to popular historical storytelling. Educated at home after a childhood spinal injury, he drew on his father’s extensive Americana library and began printing research while still young.