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- Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938.
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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 · 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 is born in 1866, just after the American Civil War, lives through the end of the 19th century and well into the beginning of the 20th. He is the son of the patriarch of one of the founding families of Boston and assumes that role himself when his father dies.
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- 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
The novel’s title character, George Apley, is born in his grandfather’s house on Beacon Hill in 1866 and dies in his own Beacon Street house in 1933. Except for a few trips to Europe and...
Complete summary of John P. Marquand's The Late George Apley. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Late George Apley.
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 expected...
