By 1812Blockhouse
Once again, when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, a great number of American books, musical compositions, and other pieces of creative output lost their copyrights and joined the public domain.
Last year, that included the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by local author Louis Bromfield. Early Autumn was published in 1926, and won the coveted Pulitzer the next year.
This year, new freely accessible works include The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the movie The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson, and Irving Berlin’s song “Puttin’ On the Ritz.”
1927 was a productive year for Bromfield. Importantly, it was the year when his work A Good Woman was published, the last in a four book series – which included The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. A Good Woman was proclaimed as “…a novel of a woman who despite her courage in the face of abandonment, all she did came to a sterile nothingness because she lacked all understanding.”
The novel was a rousing success. Bromfield then took a position as a commercial lecturer, traveline across the country in the process. After completing his contract, he returned to France.
There are many places to purchase A Good Woman online, including here.
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