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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aBartlett, Frederick Orin,
_d1876-1945
245 1 0 _aJoan and Co.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-26
508 _aMatthew Sleadd, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Joan and Co." by Frederick Orin Bartlett is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Joan Fairburne, a wealthy young debutante restless with society’s rituals, Dicky Burnett, an amiable heir just awakening to real feeling, and Mark Devons, a hungry inventor, whose lives intersect after a snowstorm accident. The story explores class, purpose, and the tension between comfort and conviction as romance, ambition, and business loyalties collide. The opening of the novel introduces Dicky’s growing seriousness about Joan amid New York society and his affectionate but candid bond with his industrious father, whose leather-finishing company dominates its field. It then shifts to Joan’s boredom with her protected world, her broadened sympathies from college—especially through her friendship with the late Mildred Devons—and her craving for a “big adventure.” Meanwhile, Mildred’s cousin Mark, a gifted but penniless inventor with a superior leather-dressing process, is turned down by financiers wary of Burnett’s entrenched power; starving in a snowstorm, he stumbles into the path of Joan’s car just after Joan has refused Dicky’s impulsive proposal. Joan brings Mark home, where Dr. Nichols treats him and discovers his malnourishment; guilt and curiosity draw Joan to read to him and talk of fate and responsibility, while Dicky, kept at a distance, writes a plainspoken, loyal letter and makes a tense, brief call. By the time these first chapters close, Joan’s daily visits and Mark’s recovery begin to erode class barriers, setting the trio on a course of intertwined choices. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919
653 _aNew York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
653 _aMate selection -- Fiction
653 _aChildren of the rich -- Fiction
653 _aRich people -- Fiction
653 _aSocial classes -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aInventors -- Fiction
653 _aBusiness enterprises -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/joanandco00bartiala
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78046
999 _c118766
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