Boni & Liveright

JENNIE GERHARDT CHAPTER I ONE morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied by a young girl of eighteen, presented herself at the clerk's desk of the principal hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and made inquiry as to whether there was anything about the place that she could do. She was...

THE HARD-BOILED VIRGIN Though her father and mother would not have accounted for her in just that way, Katharine Faraday was the sixth pledge of their love. They had not much curiosity concerning the stars or the arts, and they would have been as unlikely to say that she was born under the sign of...