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"The Sheltered Life," writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance." It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society... Read Full Overview

The moving tale of two small-town Virginia families and the crumbling of their shelters--religion, convention, and social prejudice--by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

" "The Sheltered Life,"" writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance." It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly... Read Full Overview

The Sheltered Life is perhaps Glasgow's most direct attack upon that Southern cult of manners. Set in the early 20th century - beginning in 1906, and continuing to the onset of the First World War in 1914 - this novel takes as its subject the changing fortunes of two families,... Read Full Overview

The Sheltered Life stands as one of the most stirring epitaphs to the romantic South in American literature. In the town of Queenborough, Virginia, the Archbalds and the Birdsongs, the two remaining families on Washington Street, hold their ground and attempt to ignore the industrial... Read Full Overview