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A Poor Wise Man
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century America. The characters are compelling and representative of the various socioeconomic classes. The reader follows the complicated relationship of Lily Cardew (just returned from working with the Red Cross during the war) who finds herself unable to go back to the empty social life of the rich and William Wallace Cameron, an honest, fearless and patriotic pharmacy clerk during the turbulent times of an industrial town.
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century America. The characters are compelling and representative of the various socioeconomic classes. The reader follows the complicated relationship of Lily Cardew (just returned from working with the Red Cross during the war) who finds herself unable to go back to the empty social life of the rich and William Wallace Cameron, an honest, fearless and patriotic pharmacy clerk during the turbulent times of an industrial town.
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Doyle looked at him quickly. Akers' speech about women had crystallized the vague plans which Lily's arrival had suddenly given rise to. He gave the young man a careful scrutiny, from his handsome head to his feet, and smiled. It had occurred to him that the Cardew family would loathe a man of Louis Akers' type with an entire and whole-hearted loathing.
"You might try to make her have a pleasant evening," he suggested dryly. "And, to do that, it might be as well to remember a number of things, one of which is that she is accustomed to the society of gentlemen."
"All right, old dear," said Akers, without resentment.
"She hates her grandfather like poison," Doyle went on. "She doesn't know it, but she does. A little education, and it is just possible—"
"Get Olga. I'm no kindergarten teacher."
"You haven't seen her in the li. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Equal parts, Romance, Political Commentary and Social Commentary.
I down loaded this book because I had read another (modern day) book that made reference to Mary Rinehart's Mystery writing. This book is not a Mystery novel. As I titled this review, this novel is a Romance with some impressive politi
"Had I but known..." that this book would lessen my opinion of one of my favorite authors...Wait. That's too harsh. Reading this was not one of my most enjoyable experiences but Mrs. Rinehart still managed to get off a few zingers and flashes of her native wit. The tale and the characters had the fe
Spellbinder
M. Rinehart never disappoints and this is no exception. The story could almost be set in 2020 with some changes--- the elite rich envied by the challengers who seek to replace them ; the poor workers who are used by both groups, and the foreigners who tend to be anarchists or socialists w
I very much admire the main character, Willie: he was kind, generous, encouraging, sacrificial, and a quiet leader. I liked the female lead at first, with her work for the Red Cross in WWI, and her desire to break out from under her harsh and wealthy grandfather’s tyrannical rule, but she made some
Really more like a 3.5 rating but I gave it a 4 star because I wish more people were reading Mary Roberts Rinehart.
I’m endeavoring to read her complete collection and so far all the different novels I have read have been unique. This one proves that there is nothing new under the sun and the politic
Allowing for the time this was written, it was a very forward book, especially for a woman writer. While most of us would find something to disagree with, the roles of women, views of politics or religion, remembering this is from a different time where the author didn't have the decades in between
The discontent and manipulative characters remind me of events today. It was interestingly developed with some good insights.
For the first few chapters, A Poor Wise Man seems to be shaping up as a star-crossed romance between the daughter of wealthy industrialists and a middle-class drugstore clerk. It turns out to be an alternate-history imagining of what a Bolshevik revolution in a post-WWI America would look like.
Well.