'Way Down East
Author | : Joseph Rhode Grismer |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1900 |
ISBN-10 | : NYPL:33433076068562 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Download or read book 'Way Down East written by Joseph Rhode Grismer and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1900 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with financial difficulties, innocent country girl Anna Moore goes to visit her rich Boston relatives, the Tremonts, to seek aid. There she becomes the victim of a false marriage to playboy Lennox Sanderson. Deserted by the man she thought was her husband, Anna is left penniless and alone to face the birth of her nameless child. After her mother's death, Anna takes refuge in a rooming house in Belden where her baby dies. Turned out by an unsympathetic landlady, the brokenhearted mother finds employment at the farm of Squire Bartlett, a stern but just man, who believes in a strict accounting for sin. The squire's son David falls in love with Anna, and she is about to accept her new found happiness when Sanderson appears and the squire learns that Anna had lived with him in sin. He turns the girl from the house in a blinding snow storm, and hysterical, she stumbles onto the frozen river where she faints. Her rescue by David from the drifting ice and certain death brings about their union after the squire and his wife learn Anna's true story.