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Louis was born on December 27, 1896, at Mansfield, Ohio.
(She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman...)
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. And upon the thin, erect shoulders of Mrs. Parkington, her children still piled the problems with which they themselves had neither wisdom nor courage to cope. Louis Bromfield has written a charming love story, a long, nostalgic novel which covers one of the most exciting, multi-colored periods of American history. A meretricious age, flashy, fantastic, corrupt, it was also an age of giants, of strength and growth and great visions. He has filled a dramatic and richly crowded story with people who are unmistakably of their era, whether it is the world of the nineteenth century, the pre-war period, or the confusing revolutionary world of today. In Mrs. Parkington, Bromfield has created his most unforgettable character.
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"Bromfield was firm in his beliefs in what makes agriculture good and right. He remained solidly rooted and his compass pointed true until his death" --David Kline
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(What distinguished Louis Bromfield above all else was his...)
What distinguished Louis Bromfield above all else was his huge appetite for life. This quality is reflected in all his writing, and in these three novels we find many evidences of his unforgettable personality -- the character and outlook of a man who never lost his deep Americna roots in the course of his travel and his long sojourns in foreign lands. This omnibus contains three of Brownfield's finest novels: Early Autumn, The Green Bay Tree, and A Good Woman. Book Club Edition.
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Louis Bromfield, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, established one of the most significant homesteads in Ohio on his Malabar Farm. Today it receives thousands of visitors a year from all over the world; once the site of the wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, it was a successful prototype of experimental and conservation farming. This lively, outspoken, and affectionate memoir preserves all things Louis Bromfield fought for or against in a life marked by surging vitality and gusto. He came from an Ohio family whose roots were in the land before the land was lost. He had his father's love of the land, and from his willful mother a hunger to know the world. From the New York City of theaters, concerts, parties, and novels, and a life in France that his success allowed, he finally returned to Ohio and established a new order for his family and friends, and for his followers, a new orbit into which they were drawn. Ellen Bromfield Geld wrote a memoir of the man who was Louis Bromfield, father and friend, tyrant and Boss, alive always to whatever was worth responding to in people and in places, yet complex and lonely as a writer must essentially be to work at his craft. Now revived in paperback thirty-five years after its first publication, The Heritage remains a moving tribute and the recreation of a remarkable human being.
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(A torrential force, like the rains and flood it depicts, ...)
A torrential force, like the rains and flood it depicts, the novel's expansive scope resonates with issues that are still relevant today.
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Louis was born on December 27, 1896, at Mansfield, Ohio.
Bromfield studied Agriculture at Cornell University but he transferred to Columbia University to study Journalism, where he was initiated into the fraternal organization Phi Delta Theta. His time at Columbia would be brief; he left after less than a year to go to war.
Among the more important of his novels are The Green Bay Tree (1924), Possession (1925), Early Autumn (1926), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, A Good Woman (1927), The Farm (1933), and Mrs. Parkington (1943). Visits to India provided the setting for The Rains Came (1937) and Night in Bombay (1940). Though his early novels received critical accalim for their honest attempts to portray American society, later works seemed superficial and overly romantic. After long residence abroad, Bromfield returned to the United States in 1939 to live on his Malabar Farm near Mansfield. His strong interest in experimental farming appears in Pleasant Valley (1945), The Wild Country (1948), Malabar Farm (1948), and Out of the Earth (1950). A New Pattern for a Tired Old World (1954) summarized his political philosophy. Bromfield died March 18, 1956, in Columbus, Ohio.
His most highly acclaimed novels are The Green Bay Tree (1924), Possession (1925), and Early Autumn (1926), for which he was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize. Although written in France, these works, along with his best novel, A Good Woman (1927), all focused on life in the United States. In the 1980s, Louis Bromfield was posthumously elected to the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, and in December 1996, the centennial of his birth, the Ohio Department of Agriculture placed a bust of him in the lobby named for him at the department's new headquarters in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
(A torrential force, like the rains and flood it depicts, ...)
( Louis Bromfield, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, est...)
(She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman...)
(What distinguished Louis Bromfield above all else was his...)
("Bromfield was firm in his beliefs in what makes agricult...)
(Book by Louis Bromfield, E. B. White)
(Book by Louis Bromfield)
Louis Bromfield was married in 1921 to New York socialite Mary Appleton Wood, the daughter of prominent New York City attorney Chalmers Wood and his wife Ellen Appleton Smith. Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield died in 1952. They had three daughters, Ann Bromfield, Hope Bromfield and Ellen Bromfield.
