Certain People of Importance is a novel written by Kathleen Norris that explores the lives of various characters living in a small Midwestern town during the early 20th century. The story is centered around the wealthy and influential Vane family, who are deeply involved in the town's social and political scene. The patriarch of the family, Judge Vane, is a respected and powerful figure in the community, but his children and grandchildren struggle to live up to his expectations and maintain their privileged status.As the ...
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Certain People of Importance is a novel written by Kathleen Norris that explores the lives of various characters living in a small Midwestern town during the early 20th century. The story is centered around the wealthy and influential Vane family, who are deeply involved in the town's social and political scene. The patriarch of the family, Judge Vane, is a respected and powerful figure in the community, but his children and grandchildren struggle to live up to his expectations and maintain their privileged status.As the novel progresses, the lives of the Vanes and their associates become increasingly complex and intertwined, with secrets, scandals, and tragedies threatening to upend their carefully constructed world. The story touches on themes of family, class, ambition, and morality, as the characters grapple with their own desires and the expectations of those around them.Throughout the novel, Norris's writing is rich and evocative, capturing the rhythms of small-town life and the nuances of human relationships. Certain People of Importance is a compelling and thought-provoking work of fiction that offers a vivid portrait of a bygone era and the people who inhabited it.1922. Kathleen Norris was a writer of romantic novels and short stories that had enormous appeal, particularly to women. One of her favorite themes involved virtuous women grappling with moral issues, for instance, affairs with married men. Her writings were labeled as sentimental and honest. The book begins: The beginnings of the family in America are lost, unfortunately, in the obscurity that hangs over the old records and the older homestead of a few insignificant New England villages. That there were Crabtrees in America before the war of the Revolution is provable, but it has never been quite easy to connect the Charlestown and the Springfield families of that name with that of one Reuben Crabtree, a wheel-maker of Mendon, Massachusetts, whose marriage to Hannah Pratt of Bridgewater, Connecticut, took place in the year 1760. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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