An edition of Ceremony of the Innocent (1976)

Ceremony of the Innocent

1st Doubleday ed.
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An edition of Ceremony of the Innocent (1976)

Ceremony of the Innocent

1st Doubleday ed.
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From the foreword:
''While this book is not my autobiography, and Ellen Porter's background is not mine, nor her appearance - and I was born many years later than she was born - her thoughts have been my thoughts and her experiences mine also. I have encountered many of the people in the book and have endured from them what Ellen Porter had endured, though they are a composite picture here and so cannot be identified. Many of them, too, are now dead.

So in many ways though this is a bitter book it is a true one. There is an old saying, "Only a man can hurt himself. But only a man can hurt a woman." TAYLOR CALDWELL

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
499

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Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Ceremonia de los inocentes
Ceremonia de los inocentes
1987, Ediciones Grijalbo
in Spanish - 1. ed.
Cover of: Ceremonyof the innocent
Ceremonyof the innocent
1986, Fontana
in English
Cover of: Ceremony of the Innocent
Ceremony of the Innocent
April 12, 1984, Fawcett
in English
Cover of: Ceremony of the innocent
Ceremony of the innocent
1978, Fontana
in English - (Abridged ed.).
Cover of: Ceremony of the innocent
Ceremony of the innocent
1977, Collins
in English - Abridged [ed.].
Cover of: Ceremony of the Innocent
Ceremony of the Innocent
1976, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Hardcover in English - 1st Doubleday ed.
Cover of: Ceremony of the Innocent
Ceremony of the Innocent
Publish date unknown, Collins
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Manufactured in U.S.A.

Published in
Garden City, USA
Copyright Date
1976 by Taylor Caldwell

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/2
Library of Congress
PZ3.C12743 Ce, PS3505.A364 Ce

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
499 p. ;
Number of pages
499

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5209223M
Internet Archive
ceremonyofinnoce00cald
ISBN 10
038507042X
ISBN 13
9780385070423
LCCN
75036582
OCLC/WorldCat
2317514, 999580212
Library Thing
123330
Goodreads
1417417

Work Description

New York Times Bestseller: The quest for the American Dream soars to new heights in this coming-of-age story of a young woman and her country. Living with her aunt in poor, rural Preston, Pennsylvania, thirteen-year-old Ellen Watson loves books and music and is completely oblivious to her own beauty. But her extraordinary looks arouse envy and malice in the female townspeople--and lust in the males. Hired as a housemaid in the palatial home of the village mayor, Ellen soon catches the attention of his son, Jeremy Porter, who captures her heart in turn. He offers to send her to school, and four years later he proposes marriage.

As the years pass, Ellen's life parallels the hopes, dreams, and fears of a no-longer innocent nation. As America's enemies gather, Ellen must face her own demons. The wife of the scion of a powerful political family, she has everything she could ever desire: security, children, and a successful, adoring husband. But when tragedy rips her life apart, Ellen will be forced to confront some terrible truths about her marriage, her family, and herself. Played out against the backdrop of early twentieth-century America, Ceremony of the Innocent intertwines Ellen's personal journey with America's emergence from the devastation of World War I.

It raises vital questions, such as: Are we as good as we believe we are? And is faith enough to keep us moving forward even in the face of unimaginable loss? Some explicit descriptions of sex--LibraryThing*

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