Their Pilgrimage
Charles Dudley Warner
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Description
Charles Dudley Warner wrote Their Pilgrimage as a novel of American resort life, opening at Fortress Monroe on March twentieth. Irene looks from her stateroom at soft, luminous horizon clouds prophesying spring, as a steamer from Baltimore's arctic temperature nears the wharf. Passengers crowd the guards to scan the Hygeia Hotel, which Irene calls more conservatory than hotel, its glass corridors above and below.
The pilgrimage moves through watering places, hotels, and summer society, with Warner satirizing fashionable travel and the search for health, scenery, and company. A later passage mocks a noble tower pierced irregularly with factory-like square windows. The novel charms as a period picture of Gilded Age tourism, gentle and observant.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Charles Dudley Warner |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 482 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |