Front matter

A GOOD WOMAN

BY LOUIS BROMFIELD Author of “The Green Bay Tree,” “Possession,” and “Early Autumn” NEW YORK :: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY :: MCMXXVII Copyright, 1927, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America To THE LATE STUART P. SHERMAN TAKEN BY DEATH AT THE MOMENT WHEN THE AMERICAN WRITING TO WHICH HE GAVE HIMSELF WITH SO MUCH DEVOTION, NEEDED HIM MOST SORELY.

FOREWORD

“A Good Woman” is the last of a series of four novels dealing from various angles with a strongly marked phase of American life. The book was planned, without being in any sense a sequel, as part of a picture which includes three other sections—“The Green Bay Tree,” “Possession” and “Early Autumn.” Taken together the four might be considered as a single novel with the all-encompassing title “Escape.”

Louis Bromfield.

Paris, June 15, 1927.

CONTENTS

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Part One

The Jungle3

Part Two

The Slate-Colored House55

Part Three

The Stable221

Part Four

The Jungle411