By Love Possessed
By Love Possessed,novel by James Gould Cozzens, published in 1957.
Between the time that an ornate French gilt clock inscribed “amor vincit omnia” strikes three o'clock one afternoon and its striking of four o'clock two days later, Arthur Winner, Jr., undergoes a series of crises and discoveries that force him to alter the view he takes of himself, the rational standards of his revered late father (in whose living room the clock is situated), and his world, centered on his well-to-do and well-born family's community. During these trying 49 hours, Winner, a conservative lawyer, now about 50, is called on to defend Ralph Detwiler, the orphan son of family friends and the brother of his devoted spinster secretary, Helen. Although Ralph is corrupt, he is innocent of the crime of rape for which he has been arrested, and the prosecutor Garrett Hughes, an assistant district attorney, and Jerome Brophy, the district attorney who wants to be a...
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