Project Gutenberg 2025-04-03 Public domain in the USA. 488 Glenn, Isa 1874 1951 Schindel, Isa Glenn 32025842 East of Eden First edition $aGarden City, New York :$bDoubleday, Doran & Co., $c1932. Carla Foust, Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "East of Eden" by Isa Glenn is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set amid contemporary literary New York, it revolves around the brilliant and enigmatic Eva Litchfield and her marriage into the established Van Suydam family. The main focus appears to be the clash between Eva's individuality and creative drive with the expectations and traditions of her husband's family, particularly as seen through the watchful eye of her formidable mother-in-law. Through the perspectives of friends, the novel seems primed to explore themes of artistic identity, social belonging, marriage, and the tensions inherent in New York's evolving society. The opening of the novel introduces Eva Litchfield as a beautiful, emotionally elusive writer of genius, whose marriage to Nicholas Van Suydam—himself part of a patrician New York family—is widely discussed among her circle of literary friends. Narrated by Dinah Avery, newly returned from France, the story unfolds through a patchwork of conversations and social encounters, each revealing different perspectives on Eva, her husband, and the imposing Mrs. Van Suydam. The reader is quickly immersed in an atmosphere of lively gossip, partisan judgments, and subtle rivalries within New York's literary elite. As Dinah seeks to piece together the truth behind Eva's troubled marriage, the narrative paints a vivid picture of the social dynamics, anxieties, and ambitions of its characters, setting the stage for an intimate exploration of personal and cultural conflicts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.56696 20230214072453glenn 1932 US Reading ease score: 81.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. en New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Women novelists -- Fiction Romans à clef Spouses -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 519004 2025-07-30T05:13:59.687948 text/html 493516 2025-04-03T03:56:47 text/html 488593 2025-07-30T05:14:07.035385 application/epub+zip 485652 2025-07-30T05:14:01.089989 application/epub+zip 343901 2025-07-30T05:14:00.386957 application/epub+zip 727578 2025-07-30T05:14:11.563386 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 692404 2025-07-30T05:14:06.513396 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 479257 2025-07-30T05:13:58.768963 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 459382 2025-04-03T03:56:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16664 2025-07-30T05:14:11.744363 application/rdf+xml 15208 2025-07-30T05:14:00.626940 image/jpeg 2673 2025-07-30T05:14:00.509914 image/jpeg 492035 2025-07-30T05:13:59.755942 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