Main Street

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Book Overview

Carol, a young and romantic woman dreams of transforming the boring small town of Gopher Prairie when she marries Dr. Will Kennicott and moves with him to this town. She becomes a member of a group of socially prominent wives who call "the Jolly Seventeen", but they take umbrage at her sympathy for what was at that time a largely Scandinavian and German working class. Carol's dreams are broken by the reality of a middle class, petty, committed on its own security and on the preservation of the status...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1979928606
• ISBN13: 9781979928601
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"