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Mr. Wilder Turns to Terence
Hazlitt, Henry | February 26, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Woman of Andros," by Thornton Wilder. The book is set in a former age and in a foreign place. The place is the Greek island of Brynos. The story is conventional, a young girl, innocent sister of an eminent hetaera, has a love affair with a young man of good family on the island and becomes pregnant. The young man is then called upon to decide whether he shall leave her to her fate or whether he shall marry her with all the serious social consequences, which that would involve. His period of indecision is the period of the novel's suspense.

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WOMAN of Andros, The (Book); WILDER, Thornton; GIRLS; YOUNG men; LOVE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL impact; FATE & fatalism; SUSPENSE in literature
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