| Author |
Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942 |
| Title |
The Priceless Pearl
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| Note |
Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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| Credits |
E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
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| Summary |
"The Priceless Pearl" by Alice Duer Miller is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Pearl Leavitt, a beautiful young woman whose looks create complications in her professional life, leading her to lose multiple jobs due to the distractions she causes in male-dominated workplaces. The book delves into themes of gender dynamics, societal expectations, and the struggles of a woman trying to make her way in a world that often judges her based on her appearance rather than her abilities. The opening of the novel introduces Pearl in the context of her most recent job at an encyclopedia publishing company, where her beauty has led to her dismissal, largely due to the emotional turmoil it causes in one of her male colleagues. After an emotional confrontation with her boss, she storms into a board meeting to voice her grievances, making a bold statement on the double standards faced by women in the workforce. As she navigates her job search, her story intersects with her college friend, Augusta, setting the stage for a series of events that will test both women's resolve and their understanding of relationships, ambition, and self-worth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Love stories
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| Subject |
Governesses -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Families -- Fiction
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
64192 |
| Release Date |
Jan 1, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated |
Oct 16, 2022 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads |
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