Barren Ground

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1925. First Edition. Smaller octavo with black cloth boards and pictorial title on spine; red endpapers; [4], 511 pages; 20 cm An about very good (-) copy with sunning to spine; binding is starting but intact; pages are age-toned . Hardcover.

An account of thirty years in the life of a rural Virginia woman, Dorinda Oakley who is an intelligent, independent and vibrant young lady who is trying find herself and her purpose in life by moving to New York after a love disillusion. Contents: Part First. Broomsedge. Part Second. Pine. Part Third. Life-everlasting. About the author: "Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction." --Wikipedia.