Best Selling Books by Louis Bromfield

The Pentlands are a very conservative, old money family in a small town near Boston, who claim ancestry going back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the fall of an unspecified year in the 1920’s, their world is invaded by several “outsiders,” including Sybil, the patriarch’s granddaughter back from a Paris education, Sabine, a prodigal niece who has returned after being gone for twenty years, together with her daughter Thérèse, and O’Hare, an Irish Catholic politician who is at odds with the deeply ingrained Protestant background of the community. As the novel progresses, it becomes increasingly clear to Olivia, Sybil’s mother, that all is not well in the Pentlands’ world; beneath the apparent calm there are secrets bubbling to the surface that have been hidden for years. It also becomes clear that with the changes taking place in the world at large and in their world in particular, the future of the Pentland family could be in peril. Before Louis Bromfield became a well-known agriculturist, he was a writer of several successful novels. This family study, which is said to be based on his wife’s Puritan upbringing, won him a Pulitzer. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The World We Live In" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Bromfield''s follow-up to Pleasant Valley continues that book''s focus on Malabar Farm''s transition from general purpose farm to single-crop grass production. It is a seminal work on organic, sustainable agriculture.

"Consisting of thirty-two letters, one postcard, and a note from Wharton''s secretary to Bromfield''s wife, their correspondence gives an insight into the private worlds of these two distinguished writers."--BOOK JACKET.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mrs. Parkington" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Good Time Bessie" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Early Autumn is Louis Bromfield''s masterful Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which gives an insightful look into the struggles and extravagance of everyday life in Jazz Age America. After twenty years of inexplicable absence, Sabine Callendar returns to her hometown of Durham, New England. Equipped with a fiery personality, a strong-will, and an 18-year-old daughter ready to present to society, Sabine is not the downtrodden woman her family expected her to be. But Sabine is not the only member of the family to return home this autumn, and Durham is soon filled with secrets. First published in 1926, Louis Bromfield won the Pulitzer Prize for Early Autumn in 1927. This volume would make the perfect addition to the bookshelves of those who love Jazz Age literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mr. Smith" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

"Mr. Bromfield paints on a large canvas, but with almost unfaltering deftness." --The New Republic In 1924, Louis Bromfield published his first novel, The Green Bay Tree, which featured a headstrong, independent female protagonist — a feature that recurred in many of his later books. Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Awake and Rehearse" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Man Who Had Everything" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kenny" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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.

Set in Ranchipur, India, tensions rise as everyone waits for the rains to come. Unless they come soon, famine and disease will be widespread.

The Green Bay Tree: The book deals with the adventures and misadventures of two daughters of a Midwestern steel baron. Early Autumn: a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1926, is a dramatic novel of Olivia Pentland''s choice between love and the Pentland tradition in an old Massachusett''s family. A Good Woman: The moving portrait of Emma Downes -- a ''good'' woman -- and her ruinous domination of her family and of her son. A novel of the intimate study of lives challenged by change in a booming mill town.

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

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.

New Orleans in wartime.

Largely a record of the achievements of which we at Malabar are proud and the failures which have been disappointing but from which we have always learned something.

Louis Bromfield was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1896 to Charles Brumfield, originally from New England, and Annette Marie Coulter Brumfield, the daughter of an Ohio pioneer. Bromfield decided to change the spelling of his name after it was misspelled on one of his early works.Bromfield studied agriculture at Cornell University from 1914 to 1916, but transferred to Columbia University to study journalism. While at Columbia University, Louis Bromfield was initiated into the fraternal organization Phi Delta Theta. His time at Columbia would be brief; he left after less than a year to go to war. After serving with the American Field Service in World War I and being awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, he returned to New York City and found work as a reporter. In 1924, his first novel, "The Green Bay Tree", won instant acclaim. He won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for best novel for Early Autumn. All of his 30 books were best-sellers, and many, such as The Rains Came and Mrs. Parkington, were made into successful motion pictures.In 1925, Bromfield and his family left for a vacation in France, a country he had come to love during the war. They stayed for thirteen years. Paris, between the wars was known for its expatriate community of American writers. Among the Bromfields'' literary friends in the city were Edith Wharton, Natalie Barney, Sinclair Lewis, and Gertrude Stein.In the 1980s, Louis Bromfield was posthumously elected to the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, and in December 1996, the centennial of his birth, the Ohio Department of Agriculture placed a bust of him in the lobby named for him at the department''s new headquarters in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.The innovative and visionary work of Louis Bromfield continues to influence agricultural methodologies around the world. Malabar Brazil, under the direction of Ellen Bromfield Geld, has expanded the horizons of her father''s principles and pursuits. To ensure the work continues well into the 21st century, the Malabar 2000 Foundation plans to develop a center for study at Malabar Farm to further the work begun in Richland County (Mansfield, Ohio) by Louis Bromfield.Louis Bromfield was married in 1921 to New York socialite Mary Appleton Wood, the daughter of prominent New York City attorney Chalmers Wood and his wife Ellen Appleton Smith. Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield died in 1952. They had three daughters, Ann Bromfield, Hope Bromfield and Ellen Bromfield.