Romance of a Plain Man

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776599431
• Edition: 0

In the 1800s, the American South was a highly stratified society in which different classes rarely intermingled. By the early twentieth century, the rise of a new class of nouveau riche titans of industry began to change that. It is against this backdrop of transition that Ellen Glasgow sets her novel The Romance of a Plain Man. The story follows poor but honorable Ben Starr as he works his way up the socioeconomic ladder in pursuit of the daughter of an aristocratic family.

Table of contents

• THE ROMANCE OF A PLAIN MAN
• Contents
• Chapter I - In Which I Appear with Few Pretensions
• Chapter II - The Enchanted Garden
• Chapter III - A Pair of Red Shoes
• Chapter IV - In Which I Play in the Enchanted Garden
• Chapter V - In Which I Start in Life
• Chapter VI - Concerning Carrots
• Chapter VII - In Which I Mount the First Rung of the Ladder
• Chapter VIII - In Which My Education Begins
• Chapter IX - I Learn a Little Latin and a Great Deal of Life
• Chapter X - In Which I Grow Up
• Chapter XI - In Which I Enter Society and Get a Fall
• Chapter XII - I Walk into the Country and Meet with an Adventure
• Chapter XIII - In Which I Run Against Traditions
• Chapter XIV - In Which I Test My Strength
• Chapter XV - A Meeting in the Enchanted Garden
• Chapter XVI - In Which Sally Speaks Her Mind
• Chapter XVII - In Which My Fortunes Rise
• Chapter XVIII - The Principles of Miss Matoaca
• Chapter XIX - Shows the Triumph of Love
• Chapter XX - In Which Society Receives Us
• Chapter XXI - I Am the Wonder of the Hour
• Chapter XXII - The Man and the Class
• Chapter XXIII - In Which I Walk on Thin Ice
• Chapter XXIV - In Which I Go Down
• Chapter XXV - We Face the Facts and Each Other
• Chapter XXVI - The Red Flag at the Gate
• Chapter XXVII - We Close the Door Behind Us
• Chapter XXVIII - In Which Sally Stoops
• Chapter XXIX - In Which We Receive Visitors
• Chapter XXX - In Which Sally Plans
• Chapter XXXI - The Deepest Shadow
• Chapter XXXII - I Come to the Surface
• Chapter XXXIII - The Growing Distance
• Chapter XXXIV - The Blow that Clears
• Chapter XXXV - The Ultimate Choice