Barren Ground (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery
- Locales: Virginia
The heroine, Dorinda Oakley, is twenty when the book opens. Frustrated by the monotony of her life with her nervous Calvinist mother and her slow-witted but diligent father, she falls in love with a young doctor, Jason Greylock. Her dreams of joyful fulfillment are short-lived. Jason, by nature weak and unreliable, is forced into marriage with the daughter of a prosperous landowner. Dorinda, pregnant and disillusioned, flees to New York. She loses the baby in an accident but remains in the city for two years, trying to come to terms with life.
Her father’s illness calls her...
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