Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

General Fiction Humorous Fiction Romance

47 chapters18h 14mEnglish1915

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Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

Chapters (47)

1I Sylvia's Home

1307

2II The Marshall's Friends

1987

3III Brother And Sister

1576

4IV Every One's Opinion Of Every One Else

840

5V Something About Husbands

1123

6VI The Sights Of La Chance

2184

7VII "We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident..."

3051

8VIII Sabotage

1607

9IX The End Of Childhood

1411

10X Sylvia's First Glimpse Of Modern Civilization

1278

11XI Arnold's Future Is Casually Decided

1053

12XII One Man's Meat

970

13XIII An Instrument In Tune

873

14XIV Higher Education

1135

15XV Mrs. Draper Blows The Coals

1625

16XVI Playing With Matches

1923

17XVII Mrs. Marshall Sticks To Her Principles

1802

18XVIII Sylvia Skates Merrily On Thin Ice

1787

19XIX As A Bird Out Of A Snare

1499

20XX "Blow, Wind; Swell, Billow; And Swim, Bark!"

2092

21XXI Some Years During Which Nothing Happens

549

22XXII A Grateful Carthaginian

1645

23XXIII More Talk Between Young Moderns

1605

24XXIV Another Brand Of Modern Talk

1693

25XXV Nothing In The Least Modern

1453

26XXVI Molly In Her Element

2342

27XXVII Between Windward And Hemlock Mountains

1529

28XXVIII Sylvia Asks Herself "Why Not?"

1356

29XXIX A Hypothetical Livelihood

1610

30XXX Arnold Continues To Dodge The Renaissance

1101

31XXXI Sylvia Meets With Pity

1807

32XXXII Much Ado

1476

33XXXIII "Whom God Hath Joined..."

813

34XXXIV Sylvia Tells The Truth

2001

35XXXV "A Milestone Passed, The Road Seems Clear"

1109

36XXXVI The Road Is Not So Clear

1155

37XXXVII "... _His wife and children perceiving it

1224

38XXXVIII Sylvia Comes To The Wicket Gate

1250

39XXXIX Sylvia Drifts With The Majority

1926

40XL A Call From Home

1220

41XLI Home Again

1131

42XLII "_Strange that we creatures of the petty ways

411

43XLIII "_Call now; is there any that will answer thee_?"

871

44XLIV "_A bruised reed will He not break

513

45XLV "_That our soul may swim

681

46XLVI A Long Talk With Arnold

1790

47XLVII "...And All The Trumpets Sounded!"

258

Bent Twig

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