A Modern Instance

Chapter 12 No.12

Word Count: 4238 | Released on: 06/12/2017

seemed to drain it all. He knew that the old lawyer was there sitting by the office stove, drawing his hand across

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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.”