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American Beauty Shoppe
van Doren, Dorothy | October 28, 1931 issue

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The article discusses the book "American Beauty," by Edna Ferber. The book is about New England, where grow the twisted roots of the tree that is now the United States. It is about the New England house that was built out of the exuberance of the early settlers, proudly taking their land from the Indians, entirely self-sustaining, filling their house with warmth and color and life and many children; and about that house when the builders and their children were seized with a decay that left them dwarfed and broken and bitter.

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AMERICAN Beauty (Book); FERBER, Edna, 1887-1968; HISTORY; LIFE; HOUSING; NEW England
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