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First published in 1904, Hadrian the Seventh imagines the thwarted Englishman George Arthur Rose unexpectedly elected pope and, as Hadrian VII, reforming Church and world with dazzling audacity. Rolfes baroque, liturgy-saturated prose fuses satire, revenge fantasy, and punctilious canon-law detail. The novel stands between fin-de-siecle decadence and early modernism, anticipating autofiction and camp ecclesial comedy. Frederick Rolfeself-styled Baron Corvowas a Catholic convert repeatedly thwarted in clerical training, quarrelsome with patrons, and chronically poor. His wounded vocation and ferocious self-mythologizing shape the book: George Arthur Rose is an unmistakable alter ego, endowed with Rolfes fastidious Latinity, exacting aesthetic tastes, and desire to discipline a world that had humiliated him. Hadrian the Seventh deserves readers of ecclesiastical history, satire, and decadent letters alike. Come for glittering sentences and procedural verisimilitude; stay for an unnervingly intimate study of charisma, ressentiment, and reforming zeal. Few novels clarify so crisply why authority enthrallsand corrodesthe souls that crave it, or make grievance so disturbingly entertaining.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Summer (1917) follows Charity Royall in the New England hill country as a young womans desire collides with the hard strata of class and law. Whartons taut, sensuous prose couples local-color detail with a naturalist regard for social constraint, turning heat into both atmosphere and agent. Drawn to Lucius Harney, an architect cataloging vernacular houses, Charitys pastoral romance darkens into a study of dependency, reputation, and poweran explicit summer counterpart to Ethan Frome that fuses bildungsroman and regional tragedy. Edith Wharton, born into New Yorks patriciate and long resident at The Mount in Lenox, observed New England manners with an ethnographers patience and a moralists clarity. Her architectural interests and travel inform Harneys vocation, while restrictive social codessharpened by her divorce and wartime expatriationfocused her insight into transgression and female agency. In Summer she tests desire against geography and law. Readers of American realism, feminist literary history, or Thomas Hardy and Kate Chopin will find Summer accessible yet disquieting: swift, lyrically exact, and ethically unflinching. Ideal for classrooms and book clubs confronting consent, class mobility, and community surveillanceand for anyone attuned to how place scripts a life.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Tender Is the Night (1934) follows the glamorous expatriate circle on the French Riviera, centering on charismatic psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wealthy, fragile wife Nicole, observed by the naive young actress Rosemary Hoyt. Fitzgerald interlaces scenes of beachside brilliance with Swiss clinical interiors, mapping the corrosion of charisma under money, sex, and responsibility. Stylistically the novel fuses lyrical sentences with cinematic montage and shifting focalization; its non-linear publication and later chronological ordering mirror the disorientation it studies. Within the modernist moment and the postJazz Age hangover, it interrogates psychiatry, class, and the ethics of care. Fitzgerald, preeminent chronicler of the Jazz Age, wrote the book amid personal turmoil: Zelda Fitzgeralds institutionalizations and his exhaustion and debt. Years among expatriates on the Riviera and encounters with clinicians informed his textures of privilege and diagnosis, while perfectionism and revision sought a form equal to the materials moral ambiguity. Readers who value psychologically exacting fiction and stylistic radiance will find in Tender Is the Night a devastating anatomy of charm and collapse. It rewards those interested in modernist experiment, gendered burdens of care, and the limits of romantic idealism; it stands, beside The Great Gatsby, as Fitzgeralds ambitious and haunting achievement.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Winning of Barbara Worth dramatizes the audacious attempt to reclaim the Colorado Desert and found the Imperial Valley, intertwining a triangle romance with the civic epic of irrigation. Wright choreographs surveying expeditions, capital campaigns, and the catastrophic Colorado River break with a blend of sentimental realism and melodramatic momentum, indicting speculative shortcuts while celebrating communal grit and ProgressiveEra engineering faith. Panoramic desert descriptions double as moral landscape, and the contest between Abe Lee and Eastern engineer Willard Holmes for Barbaras allegiance mirrors competing visions of frontier virtue and modern expertise. A former Disciples of Christ minister turned bestselling novelist, Harold Bell Wright brought Social Gospel conviction and firsthand western experience to the book. Health and vocation drew him from the Midwest to Arizona and southern California, where he observed reclamation projects and spoke with engineers and settlers. His populist moralismsuspicious of predatory finance yet respectful of practical skillstructures the novels ethical drama. Readers of Western history, environmental studies, and popular romance will find this a revealing primary text of ProgressiveEra aspirations. It rewards those interested in the ethics of infrastructure, regional boosterism, and the perennial negotiation between individual desire and the public good.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Final Reckoning traces the fortunes of Reuben Whitney, a wronged English youth who seeks a new start in the Australian bush. Set amid the convict legacy and the bushranging scourge of early colonial New South Wales, the novel moves through drought, flood, bushfire, and the rough justice of frontier policing. Hentys brisk, episodic prose combines documentary detailstations, stock-work, and bushcraftwith melodramatic set pieces, situating the tale within the Victorian boys adventure tradition of Ballantyne and Mayne Reid while revealing the eras imperial assumptions. G. A. Henty, a prolific late-Victorian journalist and war correspondent, brought to fiction the habits of a reporter: pacing, logistical clarity, and a taste for moral exempla. Though he likely relied on travelogues, newspapers, and settler memoirs rather than firsthand Australian residence, his wide-ranging field experience and didactic aims shaped this narrative of character forged by ordeal. Readers interested in colonial Australia, frontier violence, and the formation of imperial masculinity will find this a compelling, if ideologically dated, portrait of bush life. Approach it both for its swift storytelling and as an artifact of its timerich for classroom discussion and for scholars of childrens literature.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in the backblocks of New South Wales, My Brilliant Career follows Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong teenager who narrates her refusal of the marriage market amid drought, debt, and the drudgery of bush life. In brisk, firstperson prose blending satire with lyrical landscape, the novel adapts the European Bildungsroman to the Bulletin schools realism. Franklin probes class precarity, artistic ambition, and gendered labor, and pointedly overturns the consolations of colonial romance at Federations cusp. Stella Maria Sarah "Miles" Franklin began the book in her teens and published it in 1901 with Henry Lawsons prefatory endorsement. Raised on struggling properties in rural New South Wales, she drew on pastoral routines and on debates about womens education and work. The sensationand scandalof readers treating the novel as memoir hardened her commitment to womens artistic autonomy, later evident in labor and suffrage activism and in the sardonic sequel, My Career Goes Bung. Readers of feminist comingofage fiction, Australian social history, and environmental humanities will find this a bracing, eloquent study of ambition and constraint. For classrooms and book clubs alike, it is an invigorating cornerstone of the national traditionand still startlingly modern.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The String of Pearls inaugurates the legend of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, in a heady blend of urban Gothic, crime fiction, and sensational melodrama. Serialized in a penny weekly in 184647, the novel fuses labyrinthine London topography with a suspense engine of cliffhangers, shifting viewpoints, and theatrical setpieces. Its plotpirated wealth condensed into the titular pearls, sailors vanished, customers dispatched through a barbers chair to become Mrs. Lovetts infamous piesexposes anxieties about imperial plunder, class exploitation, and the mechanization of appetite and commerce. Stylistically brisk and lurid, yet thematically pointed, it stands at the crossroads of the Newgate novel and the Victorian city mystery, anticipating later urban Gothic by converting everyday trades into engines of terror. James Malcolm Rymer, a prolific master of the Victorian "penny dreadful," honed techniques of serial suspense within Edward Lloyds publishing stable and elsewhere. His instinct for cliffhangers, vivid crowd scenes, and moral chiaroscuroevident across his vast output, including Varney the Vampirereflects an acute feel for workingclass readerships and for the press-fueled spectacle of metropolitan crime. The constraints and opportunities of serialization shaped his pacing, while the eras theatrical melodrama lent his prose its kinetic immediacy. Scholars of popular fiction, Gothic aficionados, and historians of media will find this a foundational text: a gripping, darkly comic anatomy of Victorian modernity whose influence, from stage to screen, still sharpens our taste for horror and social critique.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Village (1910) is Bunins unsparing panorama of provincial Russia, following the peasant brothers Tikhon and Kuzma through labor, drink, violence, and thwarted hope while the 1905 unrest flickers at the margins. In chiselled, economical prose that blends late-Realist precision with Naturalist determinism, Bunin builds an episodic social anatomy; landscapes, luminous yet indifferent, counterpoint the villagers brutality and endurance. Born in 1870 to an impoverished Oryol gentry family, Bunin grew up on declining estates, observing peasants without populist filters. A poet and master stylist who revered Tolstoys clarity yet rejected peasant idealization, he drew on journalism and travel to hone an unsentimental gaze. Written after 1905, the novel codifies his belief that political slogans scarcely reach the villages entrenched misery, hence its scandal on release. This is essential reading for anyone seeking a clear-eyed counterweight to pastoral myth. Students of prerevolutionary culture, admirers of Chekhovian understatement tempered by iron, and readers who value style as truth will find it bracing and memorable. Approach it for its artistry; stay for its uncompromising moral witness.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in the SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean frontier, Maria Chapdelaine follows a young woman choosing among François Paradis, Lorenzo Surprenant, and Eutrope Gagnonan intimate plot that stages a larger conflict between modern mobility and fidelity to the land. Hemons spare, rhythmic prose renders seasons, labor, and Catholic ritual with lyrical realism. At once roman du terroir and subtle critique, the novel fuses regional detail, oral cadences, and mythic resonance. Louis Hemon, a French writer born in Brittany, emigrated to Canada in 1911 and worked as a farmhand near Peribonka, learning the settlers speech and routines. Composing from notes and conversations, he sought precision without folklore. Struck and killed by a train in 1913 before publication, he left a manuscript whose posthumous fame linked Paris and Quebec and distilled his brief North American apprenticeship. Scholars and general readers alike will value this classic for its lucid portrait of place and the ethical stakes it frames. Read it for the measured beauty of its sentences, its ethnographic acuity, and its still-urgent meditation on belonging and endurance.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1850, Olive traces the formation of Olive Rothesay, born with a pronounced spinal curvature, as she negotiates family rupture, secrecy, and the vocation of painting. Craik fuses domestic realism with a quietly radical Kunstlerroman, rendering interiors and landscapes with painterly exactness while probing the ethics of care, independence, and desire. The narrative insists that physical difference can co-exist with moral and artistic authority, placing disability at the center of Victorian debates about womanhood and work. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik wrote from the vantage of a professional woman of letters who supported herself by fiction and journalism in Londons competitive literary marketplace. Having experienced early family losses and financial precarity, she repeatedly explored self-help, dignity, and duty in domestic settings. Her sensitivity to womens economic and affective constraints, together with a practical knowledge of periodical culture and circulating libraries, informs Olives insistence on female artistic labor as both livelihood and moral calling. Readers of Victorian fiction that joins feeling to social thought will find Olive moving and incisive: a landmark for studies of gender, art, and disability, and a compelling domestic narrative for admirers of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and nuanced moral realism.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set amid the French Revolutions Reign of Terror, The Scarlet Pimpernel follows the seemingly foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, whose masked alter ego engineers audacious rescues of condemned aristocrats under the nose of the implacable Chauvelin. Orczy blends melodramatic romance with cloakanddagger plotting, vivid setpieces, and witty banter, establishing a template for the gentlemanavenger and early spy fiction. Originating as a successful stage play (1903) and novelized in 1905, the book deploys disguises, doubles, and social performance to probe identity, loyalty, and the spectacle of revolution. Baroness Emmuska Orczy, a Hungarian-born aristocrat who settled in Britain, wrote the tale with her husband Montague Barstow, channeling emigre anxieties and conservative sympathies into a narrative that valorizes chivalry over mob justice. Her artschool training lends color and visual tableaux, and the couples theatrical experience sharpens pacing and dialogue. Recommended to readers of historical adventure and the genealogy of the superhero, The Scarlet Pimpernel offers brisk thrills, romantic intrigue, and the oft-quoted refrain they seek him here, they seek him there. Whether approached as Edwardian popular fiction, proto-spy narrative, or meditation on masks and duty, Orczys classic rewards close attention and remains eminently teachable and enjoyable.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in postwar Paris and Pamplona, The Sun Also Rises follows Jake Barnes, a war-wounded expatriate, and his companions—Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, and Bill Gorton—through cafés, trout

John Macnab is an interwar Highland caper: three distinguished but jaded friends, adopting the collective pseudonym "John Macnab," challenge nearby estates to stop them as they sportingly poach a stag or salmon under self-imposed rules of fair play. Buchan turns his shockers pace to pastoral-comic ends, mixing hillcraft and fly-water with courtroom wit and country-house intrigue. Crisp prose, dry understatement, and exact topographical sense frame themes of honor, sportsmanship, class obligation, and the landscapes power to cure modern ennui. Scottish scholar-statesman and historian John Buchan drew on legal training, wartime intelligence work, and a lifelong intimacy with Highland estates. Writing in the mid-1920s, he transmuted postwar restlessness among Britains governing class into playful ordeal, trusting sport and companionship to redeem fatigue. His humane Tory temper and exact knowledge of stalking, river lore, and rural society give the book its genial satire and its confidence that character, not bureaucracy, still governs a civilized commonwealth. Recommended to readers of classic British adventure and pastoral comedy, John Macnab offers a tonic blend of suspense, manners, and landscape: risk without malice, wit without cynicism, and friendship recovered on heather and riverbank.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

When a Mans a Man charts a tenderfoots apprenticeship on a Southwestern cattle ranch, treating the range as a forge for moral character. Wright mixes brisk episodesroundups, bronc-breaking, and bunkhouse debatewith plainspoken, sermon-tinged prose. In dialogue with Owen Wisters The Virginian yet more explicitly didactic, the novel refocuses Progressive-Era concerns about class and masculinity into a pastoral ethic where nature teaches discipline, community enforces honor, and useful work redeems wayward privilege. Harold Bell Wright, a former Disciples of Christ minister and one of Americas first massmarket bestsellers, drew on extended sojourns in the Southwest after illness pushed him westward. His friendships with ranchers and conviction that fiction should reform conduct shaped a method both pictorial and exhortatory. Following The Shepherd of the Hills and The Winning of Barbara Worth, he adapted his moral program to Western materials. Readers of classic Westerns, cultural history, and masculinity studies will find this novel both an engaging range tale and a revealing document of American ideals. Its swift action, clear moral arc, and affectionate portrait of ranch community make it a rewarding choice for thoughtful general readers.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Marriage (1818) is a spirited comedy of manners that anatomizes the delusions of the nuptial marketplace. Through the misalliance of spoiled Lady Juliana and the impecunious Highlander Henry Douglas, and the divergent fates of their daughters, Adelaide and Mary, Ferrier contrasts fashionable London vanity with Scottish domestic prudence. Her omniscient narrator, tart asides, and deft Scots idiom yield portraits at once comic and corrective. In dialogue with Edgeworths national tale and Austens marriage plots, the novel probes female education, class pretension, and the ethics of choice across Edinburgh, the Highlands, and London. Ferrier, an Edinburgh novelist who published anonymously with Blackwood and was encouraged by Walter Scott, drew on an upbringing among legal and clerical elites and on Highland visits to craft her scenes. A Presbyterian moral sense tempers her satire, while the capitals intellectual circle honed the observational acuity that animates household economies and kinship skirmishes. This edition rewards readers of Austen, Edgeworth, and Scott, as well as scholars of British and Scottish studies, gender, and the history of the novel. Read Marriage for its brisk wit, its shrewd anthropology of courtship and kin, and its enduring argument that sense, not splendor, is the soundest dowry.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Death of an Airman unfolds at a provincial flying club, where an Australian bishop in training witnesses what seems a routine crash. Sprigg converts that spectacle into a fair puzzle: aerodynamic minutiae, the geometry of stalls and spins, and the hierarchies of club life all become evidence as Scotland Yard is drawn into smuggling and a staged death. The prose marries crisp technical exposition to dry social comedy and Golden-Age misdirection, situating the mystery amid interwar Britains cult of civil aviation. Christopher St. John Sprigg (19071937), later famed as Marxist critic Christopher Caudwell, brought a fascination with flight and a journalists precision to crime fiction. His later Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture, and his death in the Spanish Civil War, reveal a mind attuned to modern systems; here that outlook yields procedure grounded in technology and a sociological portrait of the airminded middle class. Recommended to admirers of Sayers and Freeman Wills Crofts as well as aviation enthusiasts, Death of an Airman offers clockwork detection enriched by the texture of early civil flying. Read it for elegant clueing, exact yet unpedantic flight lore, and humane intelligenceproof that the Golden Age could entertain while taking modernity seriously.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Across Patagonia (1880) is Lady Florence Dixies brisk, unsentimental chronicle of a horseback traverse of the Patagonian steppe and Andean foothills. Combining adventure narrative with precise topographical observation, she dwells on the tyranny of wind, the discipline of campcraft, perilous river crossings, and encounters with guanaco, puma, and condor. Written within the vigorous tradition of late-Victorian travel writing, the book converses with earlier scientific travelers such as Darwin while staking a rare female claim to authority, alternating lyrical panorama with cool assessments of colonization and pastoral prospects. Born into the Douglas family, Dixie was a skilled horsewoman, journalist, and outspoken advocate of womens emancipation. Those commitmentsand a taste for strenuous sportpropelled her toward a region British readers still imagined as terra incognita. Drawing on field notebooks and reporters habits of verification, she fashions a voice at once empirical and audacious, challenging the masculinized codes of exploration. This edition will reward readers of travel literature, environmental history, and gender studies alike. As a primary source for the cultural geography of the Southern Cone and a gripping tale of endurance, Across Patagonia remains indispensableboth for its vivid pages and for the independence of mind that animates them.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Agnes Grey is a quietly radical governess novel that renders, with austere precision, the daily humiliations and moral trials of a young woman earning her living in middle-class Victorian homes. In lucid first-person prose, it favors close observation over melodrama, exposing how money, manners, and parental indulgence shape children and their keepers. Episodes among the Bloomfields and Murrays accumulate like case studies, anatomized with restrained irony. Its plain style and ethical seriousness place it between Austens moral realism and the Brontes concern for womens autonomy. Anne Bronte (18201849), the youngest sister, drew directly on her posts at Blake Hall and with the Robinsons, publishing the novel in 1847 as Acton Bell. Her Anglican conscience, sympathy for animals, and exposure to the precarious economics of womens work inform Agness steady, unsentimental voice. The compression of her poetry and her disenchanted witness to genteel households sharpen the books critique, prefiguring the more expansive social protest of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Readers of Victorian fiction, feminist history, and the ethics of care will value this concise, bracing narrative. For its exact prose, moral clarity, and unsentimental romance with Mr. Weston, Agnes Grey deserves a place beside Jane Eyre.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf is penny dreadful Gothic at full throttle: a Faustian tale of lycanthropy sweeping through early modern Europe. First serialized in the mid-1840s in Reynoldss Miscellany, it tracks Wagners bargainborrowed youth repaid in monstrous transformationsthrough pursuits, disguises, and remorse. Reynolds blends nocturnal atmospheres and diabolical tempters with cliffhangers and rapid scene-changes, making monstrosity a moral emblem and a critique of worldly ambition. George W. M. Reynoldsprolific radical, feuilleton-trained stylist, and editor of Reynoldss Newspaperperfected an accessible, rapid idiom under the sway of Eugene Sue. His mastery of sprawling serials (not least The Mysteries of London) and Chartist sympathies inform Wagner, where Germanic folklore and the Faust legend become vehicles for probing desire, social mobility, and the price of power. Recommended for readers of Gothic and Victorian popular culture, this novel offers both lurid thrills and a lucid index to nineteenth-century anxieties about temptation, identity, and authority. Read it for its breakneck serial energy and for the surprising moral intelligence that steadies the spectacle of fur, fang, and unquiet conscience.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in a shabby turnofthecentury boardinghouse, A Daily Rate follows a young wageearner whose quiet disciplinescleanliness, thrift, beauty, and prayergradually redeem a demoralized household. Hill blends domestic realism with evangelical melodrama: brisk scenes and conversion moments are offset by shrewd observations of urban labor and female friendship. Rooted in the sentimental tradition yet alert to Progressive Era questions of housing, wages, and reform, the romance becomes a blueprint for communal renewal. Grace Livingston Hill wrote from a devout Presbyterian milieu and an apprenticeship under her aunt, the bestselling "Pansy" (Isabella Macdonald Alden). Prolific and practical, she treated fiction as livelihood and ministry, drawing on Christian Endeavor work and firsthand knowledge of city missions and womens wages to imagine holiness cultivated in ordinary rooms. Recommended for readers of American religious literature, womens domestic narratives, and Progressive Era social history, A Daily Rate rewards close attention to cultural detail while offering accessible moral insight. It is an inviting entry to Hills oeuvre and a persuasive study of everyday ethics transformed by grace.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.