A Modern Instance

Chapter 11 No.11

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into their bunks, where some of them lay an

or sympathy in the snub which he had received, an

spond. "Your bed's re

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A Modern Instance

William Dean Howells Literature

“An unflinching portrait of an unhappy marriage, A Modern Instance examines a couple's personal conflicts as the effects of commercial progress and rapid changes in social and religious institutions. Howells's novel ends with the hero barred by his over-scrupulous conscience from marrying the divorced heroine.”