The Bent Twig

Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Romance

Number of Chapters: 47

Length: 18 hours and 14 minutes

Language: English

Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

I Sylvia's Home (Bellona Times)

II The Marshall's Friends (Bellona Times)

III Brother And Sister (Bellona Times)

IV Every One's Opinion Of Every One Else (Bellona Times)

V Something About Husbands (Bellona Times)

VI The Sights Of La Chance (Bellona Times)

VII "We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident..." (Bellona Times)

VIII Sabotage (Bellona Times)

IX The End Of Childhood (Bellona Times)

X Sylvia's First Glimpse Of Modern Civilization (Bellona Times)

XI Arnold's Future Is Casually Decided (Bellona Times)

XII One Man's Meat (Bellona Times)

XIII An Instrument In Tune (Bellona Times)

XIV Higher Education (Bellona Times)

XV Mrs. Draper Blows The Coals (Bellona Times)

XVI Playing With Matches (Bellona Times)

XVII Mrs. Marshall Sticks To Her Principles (Bellona Times)

XVIII Sylvia Skates Merrily On Thin Ice (Bellona Times)

XIX As A Bird Out Of A Snare (Bellona Times)

XX "Blow, Wind; Swell, Billow; And Swim, Bark!" (Bellona Times)

XXI Some Years During Which Nothing Happens (Bellona Times)

XXII A Grateful Carthaginian (Bellona Times)

XXIII More Talk Between Young Moderns (Bellona Times)

XXIV Another Brand Of Modern Talk (Bellona Times)

XXV Nothing In The Least Modern (Bellona Times)

XXVI Molly In Her Element (Bellona Times)

XXVII Between Windward And Hemlock Mountains (Bellona Times)

XXVIII Sylvia Asks Herself "Why Not?" (Bellona Times)

XXIX A Hypothetical Livelihood (Bellona Times)

XXX Arnold Continues To Dodge The Renaissance (Bellona Times)

XXXI Sylvia Meets With Pity (Bellona Times)

XXXII Much Ado (Bellona Times)

XXXIII "Whom God Hath Joined..." (Bellona Times)

XXXIV Sylvia Tells The Truth (Bellona Times)

XXXV "A Milestone Passed, The Road Seems Clear" (Bellona Times)

XXXVI The Road Is Not So Clear (Bellona Times)

XXXVII "... _His wife and children perceiving it (Bellona Times)

XXXVIII Sylvia Comes To The Wicket Gate (Bellona Times)

XXXIX Sylvia Drifts With The Majority (Bellona Times)

XL A Call From Home (Bellona Times)

XLI Home Again (Bellona Times)

XLII "_Strange that we creatures of the petty ways (Bellona Times)

XLIII "_Call now; is there any that will answer thee_?" (Bellona Times)

XLIV "_A bruised reed will He not break (Bellona Times)

XLV "_That our soul may swim (Bellona Times)

XLVI A Long Talk With Arnold (Bellona Times)

XLVII "...And All The Trumpets Sounded!" (Bellona Times)

The audiobook The Bent Twig falls under the genres of General Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Romance. It is written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

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