Project Gutenberg 2021-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 200 Miller, Alice Duer 1874 1942 Duer, Alice The Priceless Pearl E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "The Priceless Pearl" by Alice Duer Miller is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Pearl Leavitt, a beautiful young woman whose looks create complications in her professional life, leading her to lose multiple jobs due to the distractions she causes in male-dominated workplaces. The book delves into themes of gender dynamics, societal expectations, and the struggles of a woman trying to make her way in a world that often judges her based on her appearance rather than her abilities. The opening of the novel introduces Pearl in the context of her most recent job at an encyclopedia publishing company, where her beauty has led to her dismissal, largely due to the emotional turmoil it causes in one of her male colleagues. After an emotional confrontation with her boss, she storms into a board meeting to voice her grievances, making a bold statement on the double standards faced by women in the workforce. As she navigates her job search, her story intersects with her college friend, Augusta, setting the stage for a series of events that will test both women's resolve and their understanding of relationships, ambition, and self-worth. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Young women -- Fiction Love stories Governesses -- Fiction Impostors and imposture -- Fiction Families -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies 253282 2025-07-25T10:53:10.867726 text/html 236720 2024-10-18T09:32:01 text/html 447659 2025-07-25T10:53:15.459708 application/epub+zip 448314 2025-07-25T10:53:11.944721 application/epub+zip 162511 2025-07-25T10:53:11.453681 application/epub+zip 530419 2025-07-25T10:53:18.191715 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 509976 2025-07-25T10:53:15.043819 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225407 2022-09-28T22:00:36.223813 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228309 2025-07-25T10:53:10.443701 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 208422 2024-10-18T09:32:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17462 2025-07-25T10:53:18.331656 application/rdf+xml 21037 2025-07-25T10:53:11.565725 image/jpeg 2109 2025-07-25T10:53:11.506689 image/jpeg 400986 2025-07-25T10:53:10.898748 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