A Modern Instance

Chapter 38 No.38

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pril sun came in at the windows overlooking the Back Bay, and commanding at that sta

the hill, and she had bought a

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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.”