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The Wheat Princess
Fantasy
The Wheat Princess
260 pages · First published 1905
American heiress Marcia Copley travels to Italy with her wealthy family and becomes fascinated by the beauty and apparent simplicity of rural life around a Tuscan estate. Her romantic ideas about peasants, agriculture, and the responsibilities of landownership are challenged as she becomes more closely involved with the people whose labor supports the picturesque world she admires. Courtship and social expectations complicate her growing awareness that privilege carries obligations she has not previously understood. Jean Webster’s 1905 novel combines expatriate romance, humor, and social observation in a story about an American “wheat princess” discovering the realities beneath an idyllic European surface.
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