5/1/2023 0 Comments Stella dallas![]() ![]() At a posh resort to which she takes Laurel, a minor illness keeps Stella bedridden while the sweet and beautiful Laurel enjoys the company of rich young people. She fears that Stephen and Helen are trying to take Laurel away from her and wants the extra money to give Laurel all of the things that she has with the Morrisons. Stephen wants to marry Helen and informs Stella through his lawyer, but she refuses to give him a divorce and asks for more money. Soon, when Laurel comes to visit her father, she stays with the Morrisons whose opulent life and family atmosphere are far different than her lower class life with her mother. Morrison, a widow with three sons, Helen is delighted to see Stephen again, and the two rekindle their former love. ![]() Many years later, while Stephen is selecting a gift for Laurel in a New York department store, he encounters his former fiancée. ![]() ![]() Though Stephen does not think that Stella can provide the right atmosphere for Laurel, he allows Stella to keep the girl, knowing how much she loves her. Stephen's visits home become less and less frequent, and they eventually separate. After Stella insists on dancing with the kind, but loutish Ed Munn at the exclusive River Club, Stephen tells Stella that he will have to be spending more time on business in New York. After their baby daughter Laurel is born, Stella becomes bored with her life as the wife of a staid, rising businessman and begins to exhibit social characteristics which Stephen finds unsuitable. Soon they begin to see each other in the evenings, and Stephen asks her to marry him, even though she warns him that the differences in their backgrounds might be a problem. Stella schemes to have a chance encounter with Stephen, and when the opportunity presents itself one afternoon when her brother Charlie goes to work at the factory without his lunch, Stephen is attracted to her. Stephen has broken his engagement to Helen, his long-time sweetheart, because he fears that his present lack of money and social position would not be good for her. Pages: 342 Language: English Pages: 342.Young Stella Martin, the daughter of a Millwood factory worker, is secretly attracted to Stephen Dallas, a minor executive at the factory whose family was once wealthy. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. ![]()
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