Originally published in 1942, The Valley of Decision was an instant success, and its story of four generations of the Scott family—owners and operators of a Pittsburgh iron and steel works—has since captured the imagination of generations of readers. Absorbing and complex, it chronicles the family’s saga from the economic panic of 1873 through the dramatic rise of American industry and trade unionism, through waves of immigration, class conflict, natural disaster, World War I, and Pearl Harbor. In 1945 it was made into a major motion picture starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. This reissue features a new foreword by noted steel industry historian John Hoerr, author of And the Wolf Finally Came, who places the novel in context as a classic depiction of twentieth-century America.

The Valley of Decision

Literature & Fiction

Marcia DAVENPORT

Contemporary

Charles Scribner's

Valley of Decision

Fontana

I always meant to be a writer from my earliest recall, writes Marcia Davenport in her memoir, Too Strong For Fantasy, and like all such people I lived from infancy in the world of stories and books, most of them fantasy. When I began to outgrow fantasy, history seized me by the throat and has held on ever since. History is inseparable from place and politics and political men.

Too Strong for Fantasy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Discus Books

East Side, West Side

Avon/Books

"Marcia Davenport tells vividly of the desperate struggle of years of guerilla warfare, the relentless determination of a leader dedicated to the cause of freedom, and the adoration of a grateful people."

Garibaldi : Father of Modern Italy (World Landmark Book W-32)

Random House]

From her humble beginnings as a Slavic peasant, Lena Geyer rose to become one of the greatest singers of all-to reach the top of the glittering musical world. Her story has been gathered from those who knew her best: Her cherished music master Pizzetti, her closest confidant, her husband, and her manager. What emerges is the complex and challenging life of a woman who wasn't afraid to aim for the stars...and reach them!

Of Lena Geyer (A magnificent novel for every woman who has struggled for fulfill

Popular Library

[Read by Wanda McCaddon]  Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had ever lived, every theatre where his works were first performed, and every library and museum where his manuscripts were then to be seen. In this eloquent work of historical reconstruction, Davenport lets her characters tell their own stories. She builds from Mozart's infancy toward the climactic meeting in 1787 of Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Casanova in Prague, when Don Giovanni was being written, to Mozart's tragically early death. The result is a biography of such commanding stature that it has remained unassailable since its publication in 1932.

Mozart (Library Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Harriet Piers, an American divorcee vacationing in Italy, and Carlo Dalverio, a married Italian, decide to have a harmless affair, but find they can not avoid falling in love

Constant Image (New Portway Reprints)

Romance

Chivers Press

East Side West Side

Charles Scribner`s Sons

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