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    The Bent Twig
    The Bent Twig
    The Bent Twig
    Audiobook18 hours

    The Bent Twig

    Written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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