{"product_id":"seasoned-timber-univ-pr-of-new","title":"Seasoned Timber (Univ PR of New)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSeasoned Timber (Univ PR of New)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDorothy Canfield Fisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780874517538\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniv Pr of New England\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"Nobody values anything for its endurance nowadays,\" T. C. Hulme, headmaster of the Clifford, Vermont Academy muses. Long devoted to the school and to his eccentric aunt, T. C. is increasingly aware that life is passing him by. His hopes are renewed when he falls in love with a new teacher 20 years his junior. But as Dorothy Canfield Fisher shows, neither love nor Academy life runs smooth. \u003cbr\u003eA younger suitor steps in, and a rich, out-of-state trustee dies and leaves the Academy a million-dollar \"gift\" in his will. The codicils are troubling, however: Jews must be excluded, girls ousted, and local students squeezed out by a tuition hike. The affront to a Yankee sense of fair play is clear, but the school desperately needs funds. Thus T. C. and the town confront a struggle between the \"old\" virtues of tolerance, integrity, and civic responsibility and \"modern\" attitudes of expediency, exclusionism, and outside control. \u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1939, Fisher's last novel is remarkably prescient in its defense of human rights and the ramifications of their denial.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Univ Pr of New England","offers":[{"title":"Seasoned Timber (Univ PR of New) | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | Paperback | 9780874517538 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1684343","offer_id":50802267324674,"sku":"1684343","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51r8j2kIwqL.jpg?v=1792415541","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/seasoned-timber-univ-pr-of-new","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}