New Releases by Louis Bromfield

"The Girl Who Knew Everybody" is a short story by Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.

"The Hand of God" is a short story by Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.

The Pentlands are a very conservative, old money family in a small town near Boston, who claim ancestry going back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the fall of an unspecified year in the 1920’s, their world is invaded by several “outsiders,” including Sybil, the patriarch’s granddaughter back from a Paris education, Sabine, a prodigal niece who has returned after being gone for twenty years, together with her daughter Thérèse, and O’Hare, an Irish Catholic politician who is at odds with the deeply ingrained Protestant background of the community. As the novel progresses, it becomes increasingly clear to Olivia, Sybil’s mother, that all is not well in the Pentlands’ world; beneath the apparent calm there are secrets bubbling to the surface that have been hidden for years. It also becomes clear that with the changes taking place in the world at large and in their world in particular, the future of the Pentland family could be in peril. Before Louis Bromfield became a well-known agriculturist, he was a writer of several successful novels. This family study, which is said to be based on his wife’s Puritan upbringing, won him a Pulitzer. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Explore the beautiful and thought-provoking work of Robert Nathan in this comprehensive collection of his writings. From his novels and short stories to his poetry and children''s books, Nathan''s unique voice shines through in every piece. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Early Autumn is Louis Bromfield''s masterful Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which gives an insightful look into the struggles and extravagance of everyday life in Jazz Age America. After twenty years of inexplicable absence, Sabine Callendar returns to her hometown of Durham, New England. Equipped with a fiery personality, a strong-will, and an 18-year-old daughter ready to present to society, Sabine is not the downtrodden woman her family expected her to be. But Sabine is not the only member of the family to return home this autumn, and Durham is soon filled with secrets. First published in 1926, Louis Bromfield won the Pulitzer Prize for Early Autumn in 1927. This volume would make the perfect addition to the bookshelves of those who love Jazz Age literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The World We Live In" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Good Time Bessie" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mr. Smith" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Awake and Rehearse" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Man Who Had Everything" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kenny" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Mrs. Lefferty og hendes forretningspartner Maggie driver et pensionat, der, ligesom dets aldrende og lettere forvirrede beboere, har set bedre dage. Så det er et friskt pust, da først Mrs. Leffertys søn Tommy og derefter Maggies datter Sarah Jane dukker op. Da det går op for de unge mennesker, at pensionatet er i fare for at lukke på grund af dårlig økonomi, finder de på at omdanne stedet til natklub med sang og underholdning hver aften. En af pensionatets beboere er dog ikke den, han giver sig ud for at være, og det skal vise sig at blive noget af en trussel for det unge par. "Sarah Jane" blev filmatiseret med Ann Sheridan og Humphrey Bogart i hovedrollerne i 1940 under titlen "It All Came True".

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Louis Bromfield was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1896 to Charles Brumfield, originally from New England, and Annette Marie Coulter Brumfield, the daughter of an Ohio pioneer. Bromfield decided to change the spelling of his name after it was misspelled on one of his early works.Bromfield studied agriculture at Cornell University from 1914 to 1916, but transferred to Columbia University to study journalism. While at Columbia University, Louis Bromfield was initiated into the fraternal organization Phi Delta Theta. His time at Columbia would be brief; he left after less than a year to go to war. After serving with the American Field Service in World War I and being awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, he returned to New York City and found work as a reporter. In 1924, his first novel, "The Green Bay Tree", won instant acclaim. He won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for best novel for Early Autumn. All of his 30 books were best-sellers, and many, such as The Rains Came and Mrs. Parkington, were made into successful motion pictures.In 1925, Bromfield and his family left for a vacation in France, a country he had come to love during the war. They stayed for thirteen years. Paris, between the wars was known for its expatriate community of American writers. Among the Bromfields'' literary friends in the city were Edith Wharton, Natalie Barney, Sinclair Lewis, and Gertrude Stein.In the 1980s, Louis Bromfield was posthumously elected to the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, and in December 1996, the centennial of his birth, the Ohio Department of Agriculture placed a bust of him in the lobby named for him at the department''s new headquarters in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.The innovative and visionary work of Louis Bromfield continues to influence agricultural methodologies around the world. Malabar Brazil, under the direction of Ellen Bromfield Geld, has expanded the horizons of her father''s principles and pursuits. To ensure the work continues well into the 21st century, the Malabar 2000 Foundation plans to develop a center for study at Malabar Farm to further the work begun in Richland County (Mansfield, Ohio) by Louis Bromfield.Louis Bromfield was married in 1921 to New York socialite Mary Appleton Wood, the daughter of prominent New York City attorney Chalmers Wood and his wife Ellen Appleton Smith. Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield died in 1952. They had three daughters, Ann Bromfield, Hope Bromfield and Ellen Bromfield.

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"Consisting of thirty-two letters, one postcard, and a note from Wharton''s secretary to Bromfield''s wife, their correspondence gives an insight into the private worlds of these two distinguished writers."--BOOK JACKET.

On est en train de redécouvrir - avec un étonnement émerveillé dont la critique a bien voulu faire l''aveu - l''œuvre de Louis Bromfield (1896-1956), écrivain fêté en son temps puis un peu vite oublié, qui ne cessa de débusquer dans ses romans les divers mensonges derrière quoi s''est toujours rencognée la bonne conscience américaine. Mississippi (Wild is the River, 1941) est un peu son Autant en emporte le vent - on laissera au lecteur le soin de comparer. Le romancier y tire un portrait à l''acide du Sud à l''instant où la botte yankee écrase la nuque des vaincus, dans les derniers jours de la guerre de Sécession : aux célèbres contradictions du lieu (nous sommes à la Nouvelle-Orléans, patrie de la générosité hédoniste et de l''abjection raciste) répondent celles de la société des vainqueurs, corsetée de puritanisme et pourrie déjà par la soif du pouvoir. Le climat bien sûr déboutonne les uns et les autres, et invite à arracher quelques masques. Bromfield a résolu d''écrire ici, bien avant que ce ne soit à la mode, un roman de la transgression. Jeu dangereux dont les femmes se tirent finalement mieux que les hommes : elles seules parvenant, au bout du compte, à ériger droitement le désir qui les tient au ventre. On sort un peu secoué par la violence de tout cela ; mais la vérité - puisque c''est d''elle qu''il s''agit - n''a jamais été une maîtresse de tout repos.

Il faut relire Louis Bromfield (1896-1956), qu''on ne trouve plus guère en librairie et qui fut entre les deux guerres l''un des plus subtils dénonciateurs du conformisme de la vertueuse et riche Amérique. Prix Pulitzer en 1926, Précoce automne (Early Autumn) est sans doute la meilleure introduction possible au versant américain de son œuvre (laquelle fréquenta aussi les chemins de l''Asie) : il révèle, chez ce fils de fermiers de l''Ohio, un continuateur inattendu de Thomas Hardy - dont il partage ici le pessimisme sans appel. Une jeune femme, mariée au dernier rejeton d''une vieille dynastie de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, découvre un assez méchant enfer derrière la façade de respectabilité et de puritanisme de sa nouvelle famille. Lucide mais manquant de ce courage qui permet de dire non, elle accepte sa vie de prisonnière mais fera tout pour que sa fille, parvenue à l''adolescence, échappe au piège des apparences. Un combat plus risqué qu''elle ne l''imagine. Bromfield jette un regard terrible sur la " bonne " société américaine ; et rejoint par d''autres chemins la vision que Ludwig Lewisohn (Le Destin de Mr. Crump) en proposait à la même époque exactement. Les choses ont-elles vraiment changé ?

The Green Bay Tree: The book deals with the adventures and misadventures of two daughters of a Midwestern steel baron. Early Autumn: a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1926, is a dramatic novel of Olivia Pentland''s choice between love and the Pentland tradition in an old Massachusett''s family. A Good Woman: The moving portrait of Emma Downes -- a ''good'' woman -- and her ruinous domination of her family and of her son. A novel of the intimate study of lives challenged by change in a booming mill town.