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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aHurst, Fannie,
_d1889-1968
245 1 0 _aFive and ten
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 2026-04-21
508 _aCarla Foust, 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"Five and ten" by Fannie Hurst is a novel written in the early 20th century. It examines the price of American success through dime-store magnate John G. Rarick, his ambitious, dissatisfied wife Jenny, and their sharp, sophisticated daughter Jennifer as they chase status amid New York’s elite. A scholar-lodger, Dr. Felix Gerkes, stands as a foil to their glittering world of “things,” highlighting the tension between material display and inner substance. The opening of this novel centers on Rarick’s sleepless reflections on his improbable rise and on Jenny’s relentless drive to convert his fortune into social position, culminating in her pressing him to buy the palatial Ficke house on Fifth Avenue—which he does. In New York, Rarick befriends the austere, learned Dr. Gerkes and installs him in their home, to the thinly veiled disgust of Jenny and the bemused defiance of Jennifer. Jennifer’s brazen, witty persona surfaces in public antics and private clashes with her father, who struggles to anchor his family against the drift of luxury and speed. Summoned to meet Gerkes, she is forced to skip a society dinner, and an awkward family evening exposes the central conflict: Rarick’s craving for meaning and restraint versus Jenny and Jennifer’s appetite for display, motion, and modern amusements. A formal dinner with Gerkes crystallizes the clash of values—his dry, erudite talk and quiet integrity set against the family’s glittering surfaces and quick patter—leaving the household’s fault lines starkly visible. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1929
653 _aRich people -- Fiction
653 _aUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
653 _aHusband and wife -- Fiction
653 _aFamilies -- Fiction
653 _aParent and child -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/fivetenhurs00hurs/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78515
999 _c119233
_d119233