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The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston's upper class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title character is a Harvard University -educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston.
- John P. Marquand
- 1937
Feb 17, 2022 · In the end, George Apley dies in 1933. The Late George Apley, which 1930s writer Percy Hutchison of the The New York Times called “a finely perceptive novel,” is at once a subtle satire as well as a celebration of the Bostonian spirit as we watch George Apley transformed into a high-minded gentleman.
George Apley was born on Beacon Hill in 1866 and died on Beacon Street in 1933. Between these dates a great many things happened. George Apley did no more and no less than was to be...
The Late George Apley is a chronological biography/memoir. The novel’s subtitle is “A Novel in the Form of a Memoir.” George Apley is born to an extremely patrician Boston family in 1866 and dies in 1933, having resided in Beacon Hill on Mount Vernon Street. Isn’t that where Silas Lapham lived?
- (2.3K)
- Paperback
- John P. Marquand
The Late George Apley: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Ronald Colman, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell. George and Catherine Apley, a Boston family, live a proper life in a social circle. However, Eleanor's love for Howard and John's union with Myrtle threatens their home.
- (956)
- Comedy, Romance
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1947-03-20
His financial affairs do not suffer greatly, but his health is increasingly poor, and he begins to plan his will and his funeral. George Apley dies in December, 1933.
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A dramatization by Marquand and George S. Kaufman was produced in 1944 and published in 1945. Mr. Willing, contemporary and friend of the late George Apley, is requested by Apley's son John to describe his life in a book so that the conventional public eulogy may be amplified and humanized.
