Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant

"Unleavened Bread" by Robert Grant is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Selma White, a young schoolteacher navigating her path in a rapidly changing American society, following her marriage to Lewis Babcock, a varnish manufacturer. The narrative explores themes of personal development, ambition, and the evolving role of women during a time of social transformation. The opening of the novel introduces Selma and Babcock as they depart from a wedding, setting the stage for their developing relationship. Selma reflects on her previous life and the constraints she feels from her small-town upbringing and societal expectations, contrasting her aspirations of achieving something greater in a burgeoning city like Benham. Babcock, on the other hand, is portrayed as a devoted husband who yearns for Selma's affection while harboring dreams of a prosperous future. Their early interactions signal Selma's ambivalence toward traditional domestic roles and foreshadow the complexities of her character as she grapples with her desires for independence and influence in a changing world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Grant, Robert, 1852-1940
Title Unleavened Bread
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unleavened_Bread
Credits E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Amy Cunningham, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 68.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 14645
Release Date
Last Update Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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