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The Awakening of Helena Richie

By MARGARET DELAND Condensation by SARA WARE BASSETT IN 1906 Margaret Deland, after having written several other books, gave to the public the fruit of her maturer skill in The Awakening of Helena Richie. The volume is dedicated to Lorin Deland, who has since died, and no wife could have reared a more magnificent monument to honor one dear to her than in this masterpiece which stands, and will stand, for all that is best in creative fiction.

The story is simple.

Stripped of the charm of its setting and the subtle delicacy of its treatment, we have a tale presenting few characters and with no very extended scope for action. It is in its emotional quality that its power lies; and this emotion centers about the moral conflict of the heroine and her transition from a creature seeking mere happiness to a woman of alert conscience and aroused soul.