Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

"Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania" by Bayard Taylor is a novel published in 1870. Young farmer Joseph Aston lives a sheltered life in rural Pennsylvania until he meets two people who will transform his world: Julia Blessing, a manipulative city woman he hastily marries, and Philip Held, a worldly man who offers him profound friendship. As Joseph's marriage unravels amid financial schemes and tragedy, he must navigate scandal, a criminal investigation, and questions about the nature of love itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
Title Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_and_His_Friend:_A_Story_of_Pennsylvania
Credits Barry Abrahamsen, Mary Glenn Krause, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Pennsylvania -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 54863
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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