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This Side of Innocence
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Jerome Lindsey and his foster brother, Alfred, couldn't be more different. The son of a wealthy banker in upstate New York, Jerome leaves home for a life of extravagance and adventure, seducing countless women along the way. Meanwhile, Alfred becomes an executive at the family bank and his adoptive father's heir apparent. After his wife dies, Alfred shows little interest in remarrying—until he meets Amalie Maxwell, the ravishing and headstrong daughter of a tenant farmer.
Fearing that his inheritance is at stake, Jerome returns home to expose Amalie as a shameless gold digger. But the more he schemes against her, the closer he's drawn to her. Now, Jerome and Amalie will discover the thin line between love and hate—and that a moment of passion can have a lifetime's worth of consequences.
A mesmerizing tale of forbidden desire and a brilliant portrait of small-town America during the Reconstruction Era,
is "a masterful piece of storytelling" from one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors (
).
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“I should have heeded the other reviewers here. Not worth the 500+ pages. It was entirely too long, full of unnecessary scenes and an inflated vocabulary, and the characters were not even a redemption. The women were various kinds of “bring me my smelling salts” swooning Victorian stereotypes. And so many descriptions of people’s eyes and faces…So over the top. I was really hoping to like this author because she was so prolific, but I’m not sure I could make myself do another book written like this.”
About Taylor Caldwell
Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel,
(1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were
bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas
(1957),
(1968),
(1972), and
(1976), and the spiritually themed novels
(1960) and
(1966).
(1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and
(1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell’s last novel,
(1981), hit the
bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.
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