Mrs. Parkington (Used Hardcover) - Louis Bromfield

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition. There is slight wear to the dust cover edges. The pages are clean and unmarked. On the flyleaf are glued a name label from the previous owner and a brief book review. Inside the back cover is glued a People's Book Club brochure describing Mrs. Parkington as the upcoming book for the next month.

She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, worldly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure--stormy, glittery, tragic, but never dull.

Married at seventeen to one of the most colorful and ruthless of the great robber barons, she had known both the famous and interestingly infamous of two continents; had seen the gaudy world of the great Fifth Avenue chateaus come into being, flourish and decay; and now observed with wise, weary eyes the mad, turbulent world of the twentieth century.

At eight-four, she still had more zest for life than any of her descendants, all whom--with the exception of her great-granddaughter Janie--she privately despised. Charming people--but a sorry and disappointing lot who had inherited all the arrogance but none of the salty lustiness, the unscrupulousness but not the daring, that had won the Major, her husband, the friendship of Edward VII and had made her love him to the end in spite of his ruthlessness and infidelities.

330 pages

Published 1943 Harper & Brothers Publishers