Ancestors |
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| Author:
| Atherton, Gertrude |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4912-6695-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.25 |
Book Description:
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A great American novel of the old San Francisco. Mrs. Atherton has presented California with all its ancestral beauty and pride embodied in a high-bred young girl. The city, with its teeming life, glows and lives in these pages, and is really as great a part of the drama as are the characters in the foreground, leading to a moving and impressive climax in the San Francisco earthquake. The greatest work Mrs. Atherton has done is Ancestors.
"'Ancestors' in an able book. The...
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A great American novel of the old San Francisco. Mrs. Atherton has presented California with all its ancestral beauty and pride embodied in a high-bred young girl. The city, with its teeming life, glows and lives in these pages, and is really as great a part of the drama as are the characters in the foreground, leading to a moving and impressive climax in the San Francisco earthquake. The greatest work Mrs. Atherton has done is Ancestors.
"'Ancestors' in an able book. The forward movement is so swift as to carry one with a sense of growing excitement; the story proceeds breathlessly. And the greater achievement is to end with an account of the recent earthquake without producing an anti-climax." -New York Evening Post
"Gertrude Atherton has many times shows her capacity for dealing with big elements, and her new book, 'Ancestors,' is one more proof of her power." -London Tribune
"Atherton redefined women's potential and presented a psychological drama of a woman's quest for identity and for a life purpose and happiness within and beyond her procreative function. " -Charlotte S. McClure, Dictionary of Literary Biography
"'Ancestors' will restore many a discouraged reader to the hope that modern American novels need not of necessity be lacking in those great intellectual qualities which are a source of stimulation and power in fiction." -Milwaukee Sentinel
"It is a story of California in general and of San Francisco in particular." -San Francisco Argonaut
"Atherton redefined women's potential and presented a psychological drama of a woman's quest for identity and for a life purpose and happiness within and beyond her procreative function. " -Charlotte S. McClure, Dictionary of Literary Biography