Project Gutenberg 2010-04-06 Public domain in the USA. 192 Hergesheimer, Joseph 1880 1954 The Bright Shawl Produced by Katherine Ward and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "The Bright Shawl" by Joseph Hergesheimer is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Howard Gage, a young man returning from World War I, and his uncle Charles Abbott, who struggles to understand the disillusionment of the younger generation in the wake of the war. Their differing worldviews and the contrasting ideologies of youth and age form the crux of the narrative, offering a critical exploration of idealism, purpose, and the emotional toll of societal change. At the start of the novel, Charles Abbott reflects on his nephew Howard, who embodies an unsettling modernity defined by his lack of ideals and feelings of bitterness toward the war and its glorification. As Abbott reminisces about his own youth in Havana, he grapples with feelings of loss not just about the past but also about the societal values that seem to have deteriorated since his time. These contemplations set the stage for the complexities of the relationships that will unfold, particularly as Abbott observes Howard’s stark reality in contrast to his memories of an idealistic and passionate youth intertwined with prominent figures like Andrés Escobar, showcasing a lost nobility in the contemporary world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 67.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Cuba -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: American Literature 308033 2025-06-13T07:14:05.699241 text/html 312718 2021-01-06T10:39:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 118418 2021-01-06T10:39:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 187022 2025-06-13T07:14:12.313255 application/epub+zip 192055 2025-06-13T07:14:07.777227 application/epub+zip 192055 2025-06-13T07:14:06.474229 application/epub+zip 343423 2025-06-13T07:14:15.660184 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 339913 2025-06-13T07:14:11.551235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 312656 2022-09-14T15:26:57.309935 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 281411 2025-06-13T07:14:05.196249 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 281008 2021-01-06T10:39:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 110785 2021-01-06T10:39:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 281007 2021-01-06T10:39:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 110676 2021-01-06T10:39:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20525 2025-06-13T07:14:15.801197 application/rdf+xml 13169 2025-06-13T07:14:07.037247 image/jpeg 3446 2025-06-13T07:14:06.746253 image/jpeg 184808 2025-06-13T07:14:05.727228 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia