Project Gutenberg 2024-11-20 Public domain in the USA. 385 Spadoni, Adriana 1879 1953 Turner, Adriana Spadoni 20000774 The swing of the pendulum $aNew York :$bBoni and Liveright, Inc., $c1919, reprint 1921. Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Swing of the Pendulum" by Adriana Spadoni is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Jean Norris, a recent college graduate, as she navigates her emotions and aspirations amid the backdrop of societal expectations and familial duties. Through Jean’s experiences with her friends and family, the narrative explores themes of ambition, personal freedom, and the complexities of relationships. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Jean Norris on her graduation day, feeling the weight of her academic achievements mixed with anxiety about her future. As she interacts with her friend Patricia and reflects on her mother’s oppressive sense of duty, it becomes clear that Jean feels trapped between her desires and her obligations. The graduates' celebrations soon give way to a sense of impending monotony as Jean grapples with thoughts of teaching, familial responsibilities, and the encroachment of societal norms on her individuality. The opening chapters effectively set the tone for a character-driven exploration of self-discovery, making the reader curious about how Jean will reconcile her ambitions with the expectations placed upon her. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/swingofpendulum00spadrich 20240822093328spadoni 1919 US Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Single women -- Fiction Feminist fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Women college graduates -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels 802772 2025-06-29T12:39:02.919850 text/html 776877 2024-11-20T17:10:21 text/html 641133 2025-06-29T12:39:14.395754 application/epub+zip 642039 2025-06-29T12:39:05.269774 application/epub+zip 642039 2025-06-29T12:39:03.873783 application/epub+zip 1569821 2025-06-29T12:39:20.914702 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1520498 2025-06-29T12:39:13.487767 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 758192 2025-06-29T12:39:00.642834 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 738296 2024-11-20T17:10:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16596 2025-06-29T12:39:21.064684 application/rdf+xml 16910 2025-06-29T12:39:04.451783 image/jpeg 2069 2025-06-29T12:39:04.158803 image/jpeg 5456691 2025-06-29T12:39:03.012896 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