Elizabeth Appleton
First ed. cover
AuthorJohn O'Hara
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1963 (first edition)
Media typePrint
Pages310 p.
OCLC5663586

Elizabeth Appleton is a novel by John O'Hara written in 1960 and first published in 1963.[1] The story is set mostly in Pennsylvania, and the time of the narrative stretches from the early 1930s to 1950. As in earlier novels, O'Hara minutely chronicles small-town life in America in the first half of the 20th century, especially its social and sexual mores.

Plot

The title character is a woman from a wealthy New York family who, at a young age, marries a scholar of modest means. They move to his hometown in Pennsylvania, where he becomes a history professor and later a college dean. Several years into the marriage, after having two children, she embarks on a passionate but extremely secret love affair with a wealthy and affable local man.

Commercial success

The novel appeared in Publishers Weekly's list of the top ten best-selling fiction works in the United States in the year 1963. [2]

References

  1. Gore, Vidal (16 April 1964). "Appointment with O'Hara". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  2. Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Best Sellers:1895 - 1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p. 189. ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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