The Late George Apley, (Paperback)

from RebaRelishesReading

John Marquand was a successful magazine fiction writer when we wrote The Late George Apley in 1936. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for it and it is generally thought to be his best work. The novel is written in the form of a memoir supposedly by a friend of the main character, George Apley, and ...

from Kelberts

A story told with no dialog but with narratives and letters instead which I found unique and effective. George Apley is a victim of his own "goodness" - some may see his world and what he represents as the stuffy, pretentious and meaningless culture of at the end of the Victorian era; however, he...