First edition, 581 pages
English language
Published 1930 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Years of Grace
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At the turn of the century, Jane Ward lives in Chicago in a well-to-do neighborhood with her mother, father, and older sister Isabel. She goes to school and plays with her best friends Flora Furness, Agnes Johnson, and Muriel Lester. At fourteen, Jane falls in love with Andre Duroy, a cosmopolitan Catholic boy her parents find unacceptable. When at seventeen he asks her to marry him, her parents force them to wait, and Andre goes to Europe to study art. They vow to get together again when Jane is twenty-one. As she waits, Jane attends Bryn Mawr with her friend Agnes, an aspiring writer, and gains a larger view of life. When she returns home, she meets Stephen Carver, Flora's cousin from Boston, who falls in love with her. Jane now has important decisions to make that will affect her life and the lives of those around her. The novel …
At the turn of the century, Jane Ward lives in Chicago in a well-to-do neighborhood with her mother, father, and older sister Isabel. She goes to school and plays with her best friends Flora Furness, Agnes Johnson, and Muriel Lester. At fourteen, Jane falls in love with Andre Duroy, a cosmopolitan Catholic boy her parents find unacceptable. When at seventeen he asks her to marry him, her parents force them to wait, and Andre goes to Europe to study art. They vow to get together again when Jane is twenty-one. As she waits, Jane attends Bryn Mawr with her friend Agnes, an aspiring writer, and gains a larger view of life. When she returns home, she meets Stephen Carver, Flora's cousin from Boston, who falls in love with her. Jane now has important decisions to make that will affect her life and the lives of those around her. The novel touches on values, friendship, parent/child relations, love, marriage, class, roles of women, wealth, art, and maturity.