New Releases by LOUIS BROMFIELD

he Farm is a 1933 novel by Louis Bromfield. Written just before Bromfield''s return from decades of living and writing in Europe, the novel reflects the agrarian interests that would dominate the author''s thinking during the last two decades of his life.

The fabulously rich widow of an eccentric American was considered one of the most accomplished hostesses in Europe.

New Orleans in wartime.

"A clever novel describing twenty-four hours in the lives of a group of men and women, when the shrouding veil of reticence was rent and the searchlight of truth revealed dark secrets of the past which rose to claim their price." -- dust jacket.

The last of a series of four novels. The book was planned, without being in any sense of sequel, as part of a picture which includes three other sections -- ''The green bay tree,'' ''Possession'' and ''Early autumn.'' Taken together, the four are considered as a single novel with the title ''Escape.''--Publisher''s description.