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VG, uncommon title, nal publisher, copy with slight edge wear, frp, 329pps, 12pps ads in rear, gilt block title on front green cover with readable gilt spine title. Greene turned her experiences as a MA teacher into this quasi-autobiographical novel. It received good reviews; critics found it fresh and lively, an admirable piece of genre writing-although one newspaper observed that it is not so much a novel as "a triumph of character sketching, with novelistic developments." Although she fictionalized Cedarville into "Wallencamp," she did not change the names of all of her characters who were based on real people, and some of those named in the book were unhappy with how they were depicted. In particular, they felt they were made to appear rustic, odd, and backwards, in part through Greene's use of dialect. Although she apologized, they ended by suing her for libel and winning a settlement. In later editions, the names of all characters were changed, in some cases multiple times.