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A nineteen-year-old woman arrives in New York to pursue writing and takes a modest room on Harrow Street, where a varied group of lodgers—landladies, friends, and newcomers—form a close, often quarrelsome household. The narrative alternates intimate domestic scenes, social ambitions, and romantic tensions with larger episodes that send some characters to wartime France and to India, where public conflict forces moral choices. Moving between private interiors and public events, the work examines community bonds, cultural encounters, personal duty, and the gradual reshaping of lives by chance, conscience, and compassion.

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Title: The Public Square

Author: Will Levington Comfort

Release date: September 24, 2022 [eBook #69035]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: D. Appleton and Company, 1923

Credits: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress)

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THE
PUBLIC SQUARE

THE
PUBLIC SQUARE

BY
WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT
AUTHOR OF “ROUTLEDGE RIDES ALONE,” ETC.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK       ::       ::       MCMXXIII