Seasoned Timber (Hardscrabble Classics) - Softcover

Canfield, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874517532 ISBN 13: 9780874517538

Verlag: University Press of New England, 1996

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Book by Fisher Dorothy Canfield Madigan Mark J

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"Thoughtful, very well written and showing a keen sense of relative values, the novel summarizes clearly and well many of the doubts and difficulties of this most doubtful and very difficult time." --New York Times

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"Nobody values anything for its endurance nowadays," T. C. Hulme, headmaster of the Clifford, Vermont Academy muses. Long devoted to the school and to his eccentric aunt, T. C. is increasingly aware that life is passing him by. His hopes are renewed when he falls in love with a new teacher 20 years his junior. But as Dorothy Canfield Fisher shows, neither love nor Academy life runs smooth. A younger suitor steps in, and a rich, out-of-state trustee dies and leaves the Academy a million-dollar "gift" in his will. The codicils are troubling, however: Jews must be excluded, girls ousted, and local students squeezed out by a tuition hike. The affront to a Yankee sense of fair play is clear, but the school desperately needs funds. Thus T. C. and the town confront a struggle between the "old" virtues of tolerance, integrity, and civic responsibility and "modern" attitudes of expediency, exclusionism, and outside control. Originally published in 1939, Fisher's last novel is remarkably prescient in its defense of human rights and the ramifications of their denial.

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• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0874517532
• ISBN 13: 9780874517538
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 513