This Side of Innocence
by Taylor Caldwell
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. #1 New York Times Bestseller: A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York. Jerome Lindsey and his foster brother, Alfred, couldn't be more different. The son of a wealthy banker in upstate New York, Jerome leaves home for a life of extravagance and adventure, seducing countless women along the way. Meanwhile, Alfred becomes an executive at the family bank and his adoptive father's heir apparent. After show more his wife dies, Alfred shows little interest in remarrying—until he meets Amalie Maxwell, the ravishing and headstrong daughter of a tenant farmer. Fearing that his inheritance is at stake, Jerome returns home to expose Amalie as a shameless gold digger. But the more he schemes against her, the closer he's drawn to her. Now, Jerome and Amalie will discover the thin line between love and hate—and that a moment of passion can have a lifetime's worth of consequences. A mesmerizing tale of forbidden desire and a brilliant portrait of small-town America during the Reconstruction Era, This Side of Innocence is "a masterful piece of storytelling" from one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors (The Philadelphia Inquirer). show lessTags
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A family saga about insecurity, hate and fear. A good novel to brush up on seldom used literary terms: such as, alacrity, a fabulous word never heard and seldom read.
Brought home to re-read again. (sometime)
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Taylor Caldwell was born in Manchester, England in 1900. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1907. She attended the University of Buffalo. Caldwell began writing stories at age eight. She wrote several best-selling novels including Dynasty of Death, The Strong City, The Sound of Thunder, Bright Flows the River and Answer As a Man. She show more wrote historical fiction and some of her titles contained religious themes. She also wrote under the pen name Max Reiner. Her memoir, Growing Up Tough, was published in 1971. Her titles won her numerous awards including the National League of American Pen Woman Gold Medal, Buffalo Evening News Award, Grand Prix Chatvain and two International Awards for Book of the Year. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut on September 2, 1985. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Romance of Atlantis #, This Side of Innocence #, Sound of Thunder #, Captains and Kings #, Arm and the Darkness #, Eagles Gather #, Pillar of Iron #, Great Lion of God #, Beautiful is Banished #, Let Love Come First #, Turnbulls #, Ceremony of the Innocent #, Wide House #, Earth is the Last # , Testimony of Two Men #, Melissa #, Glory and the Lightning #, Answer as a Man #, Never Victorious #, Never Defeated # , Judas # by Taylor Caldwell
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- Canonical title
- This Side of Innocence
- Original publication date
- 1946
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- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ3 .C12743 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 288
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- 111,405
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- Languages
- English, German, Spanish
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- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 25




























































