Saratoga Trunk

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SARATOGA TRUNK Edna ferber's distinguished novels of the American scene, Cimarron, Show Boát, So Big and many others, share one special quality among them: they display at once the glamor and the strength of America, and of the people who built it. saratoga trunk is no exception. Its batíkground, New Orleans and Saratoga in the 'eighties, is one of the most picturesque America has produced, but the theme, behind the románcé between Clint Maroon and Clio Dulaine, is that of the railroad builders, the men who flung across the land the roads of steel which united it, and toward that end were careless of the means they used. Clint Maroon was a magnificent Texan whose father had been ruined by the railroads. He knew their ruth; lessness; he had enough imagination to sense their future. He was to become rich, fabulous, the greatest railroader America had ever known. Clio Dulaine was the daughter of a [ New Orleans aristocrat and his French ' mistress. She grew up in Paris, brooding over... Tovább

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SARATOGA TRUNK Edna ferber's distinguished novels of the American scene, Cimarron, Show Boát, So Big and many others, share one special quality among them: they display at once the glamor and the strength of America, and of the people who built it. saratoga trunk is no exception. Its batíkground, New Orleans and Saratoga in the 'eighties, is one of the most picturesque America has produced, but the theme, behind the románcé between Clint Maroon and Clio Dulaine, is that of the railroad builders, the men who flung across the land the roads of steel which united it, and toward that end were careless of the means they used. Clint Maroon was a magnificent Texan whose father had been ruined by the railroads. He knew their ruth; lessness; he had enough imagination to sense their future. He was to become rich, fabulous, the greatest railroader America had ever known. Clio Dulaine was the daughter of a [ New Orleans aristocrat and his French ' mistress. She grew up in Paris, brooding over the wrongs done her mother, and returned to New Orleans as a [ young woman to avenge them. There with her two servants, Kaka, the tall and stately negress, and the | dwarf, Cupide, she reopened the little house in Rampart Street and set abour | coping with the enmity of her father's (Continued on Back Flap)
(Continued from Front Flap) kin. There she might have remained, becoming herself a legend, had not her ways in a moment of inexplicable chance crossed those of Clint Maroon. She, with cold clear-sightedness, wanted to achieve not only her revenge, but wealth also. Clint had his revenge to find, too, and he too sought power and wealth. Together, behind the closed jalousies of an old New Orleans house, they förmed their plans. There was one town in America in its season lusher and more over-ripe with fashion and money than any other in the country-Saratoga, the town of spas and horses, where the fashionable world congregated liké flies. There they decided to go, two adventurers in search of their careers; Clio would be a noblewoman, the beautiful Countess De Chanfret; Clint would become Colonel Maroon, the inexhaustibly rich gentleman gambler of the West. So begins the story of saratoga trunk. Not even Show Boát has the color, the light and the vividness of these glowing pages. But behind the románcé and the glitter lies a deeper significance, for this is the story of two people in love at the turn of a ruthless century, and it is also the story of a way of life and of a breed of men who held a helpless continent in thrall, and who only today are beginning to return their spoils to the people. Full of memorable characters, of the plush and iron of a fateful past, this is Edna Ferber's richest and most satisfying növel. Vissza