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The Bent Twig

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 - 1958)

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 )

Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Romance

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	I Sylvia's Home	Bellona Times	00:21:47
Play 02	II The Marshall's Friends	Bellona Times	00:33:07
Play 03	III Brother And Sister	Bellona Times	00:26:16
Play 04	IV Every One's Opinion Of Every One Else	Bellona Times	00:14:00
Play 05	V Something About Husbands	Bellona Times	00:18:43
Play 06	VI The Sights Of La Chance	Bellona Times	00:36:24
Play 07	VII "We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident..."	Bellona Times	00:50:51
Play 08	VIII Sabotage	Bellona Times	00:26:47
Play 09	IX The End Of Childhood	Bellona Times	00:23:31
Play 10	X Sylvia's First Glimpse Of Modern Civilization	Bellona Times	00:21:18
Play 11	XI Arnold's Future Is Casually Decided	Bellona Times	00:17:33
Play 12	XII One Man's Meat	Bellona Times	00:16:10
Play 13	XIII An Instrument In Tune	Bellona Times	00:14:33
Play 14	XIV Higher Education	Bellona Times	00:18:55
Play 15	XV Mrs. Draper Blows The Coals	Bellona Times	00:27:05
Play 16	XVI Playing With Matches	Bellona Times	00:32:03
Play 17	XVII Mrs. Marshall Sticks To Her Principles	Bellona Times	00:30:02
Play 18	XVIII Sylvia Skates Merrily On Thin Ice	Bellona Times	00:29:47
Play 19	XIX As A Bird Out Of A Snare	Bellona Times	00:24:59
Play 20	XX "Blow, Wind; Swell, Billow; And Swim, Bark!"	Bellona Times	00:34:52
Play 21	XXI Some Years During Which Nothing Happens	Bellona Times	00:09:09
Play 22	XXII A Grateful Carthaginian	Bellona Times	00:27:25
Play 23	XXIII More Talk Between Young Moderns	Bellona Times	00:26:45
Play 24	XXIV Another Brand Of Modern Talk	Bellona Times	00:28:13
Play 25	XXV Nothing In The Least Modern	Bellona Times	00:24:13
Play 26	XXVI Molly In Her Element	Bellona Times	00:39:02
Play 27	XXVII Between Windward And Hemlock Mountains	Bellona Times	00:25:29
Play 28	XXVIII Sylvia Asks Herself "Why Not?"	Bellona Times	00:22:36
Play 29	XXIX A Hypothetical Livelihood	Bellona Times	00:26:50
Play 30	XXX Arnold Continues To Dodge The Renaissance	Bellona Times	00:18:21
Play 31	XXXI Sylvia Meets With Pity	Bellona Times	00:30:07
Play 32	XXXII Much Ado	Bellona Times	00:24:36
Play 33	XXXIII "Whom God Hath Joined..."	Bellona Times	00:13:33
Play 34	XXXIV Sylvia Tells The Truth	Bellona Times	00:33:21
Play 35	XXXV "A Milestone Passed, The Road Seems Clear"	Bellona Times	00:18:29
Play 36	XXXVI The Road Is Not So Clear	Bellona Times	00:19:15
Play 37	XXXVII "... _His wife and children perceiving it	Bellona Times	00:20:24
Play 38	XXXVIII Sylvia Comes To The Wicket Gate	Bellona Times	00:20:50
Play 39	XXXIX Sylvia Drifts With The Majority	Bellona Times	00:32:06
Play 40	XL A Call From Home	Bellona Times	00:20:20
Play 41	XLI Home Again	Bellona Times	00:18:51
Play 42	XLII "_Strange that we creatures of the petty ways	Bellona Times	00:06:51
Play 43	XLIII "_Call now; is there any that will answer thee_?"	Bellona Times	00:14:31
Play 44	XLIV "_A bruised reed will He not break	Bellona Times	00:08:33
Play 45	XLV "_That our soul may swim	Bellona Times	00:11:21
Play 46	XLVI A Long Talk With Arnold	Bellona Times	00:29:50
Play 47	XLVII "...And All The Trumpets Sounded!"	Bellona Times	00:04:18

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