The Squirrel-Cage
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1912
- Pages
- 325
About this book
Set in the fictional town of Endbury, Ohio, this 1912 novel follows Lydia Emery, the youngest daughter of an ambitious middle-class family, who returns from a year abroad ready for her first season in society. Dorothy Canfield Fisher traces Lydia's slow entanglement in the town's rituals of courtship and status, and the pull between Paul Hollister, a rising sales manager who offers a respectable match, and Daniel Rankin, who has left an insurance career to build furniture and live plainly in the Black Rock woods. Beneath the domestic surface runs a sharp argument about how business and social ambition press on marriage, and on the lives of women in particular. It ranks among Fisher's keenest early studies of American middle-class life and the quiet cost of conformity.
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Book facts
- Author
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- First published
- 1912
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 325
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Domestic Fiction
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online