Alexander's bridge
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- Publication date
- 1912
- Topics
- Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction, Married people -- Fiction, Mistresses -- Fiction, Civil engineers -- Fiction, Bridges -- Design and construction, Civil engineers, Married people, Mistresses, Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, England -- London, Massachusetts -- Boston
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Collection
- bplhoughton; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
174 pages ; 19 cm
Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, however, he grows increasingly restless and discontented, so much so that while in London he recklessly reignites a love affair with the sweetheart of his youth, the Irish actress Hilda Borgoyne. Although the tryst allows Alexander to recapture an element that has been missing from his pedestrian life, the relationship torments his sense of morality and eventually proves disastrous. Alexander's Bridge explores the demands of Gilded Age society on the individual, as well as the capacity of the individual to violate his own standards of integrity
LC copy 1 in presumed first state: half-title precedes t.p.; bound in blue mesh cloth with gilt stamping; lacks dust jacket. LC copy 2 in a later state: half-title follows copyright page; bound in purple mesh cloth with gilt stamping; lacks dust jacket
Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, however, he grows increasingly restless and discontented, so much so that while in London he recklessly reignites a love affair with the sweetheart of his youth, the Irish actress Hilda Borgoyne. Although the tryst allows Alexander to recapture an element that has been missing from his pedestrian life, the relationship torments his sense of morality and eventually proves disastrous. Alexander's Bridge explores the demands of Gilded Age society on the individual, as well as the capacity of the individual to violate his own standards of integrity
LC copy 1 in presumed first state: half-title precedes t.p.; bound in blue mesh cloth with gilt stamping; lacks dust jacket. LC copy 2 in a later state: half-title follows copyright page; bound in purple mesh cloth with gilt stamping; lacks dust jacket
- Addeddate
- 2021-06-15 00:00:20
- Barcode
- 39999088171952
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- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1435724143
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- 0
- Identifier
- alexandersbridge00cath_0
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- Pages
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- Physical_id
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- Ppi
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- Republisher_date
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- Republisher_operator
- associate-melanie-zapata@archive.org
- Republisher_time
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- Scanner
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- Scanningcenter
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- Full catalog record
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