<DIV><p>"A remarkable and brave novel. I was astonished at the acute angle of vision and the fullness of sympathy toward both men and women—and children."—Carol Shields</p><p>An ahead-of-its-time novel about an unhappy and obsessively house-proud mother of three whose husband is disabled, leaving her free to work in a department store and him to be a Montessori father. One of the ten best-selling novels of 1924 and made into a (silent) film, it was singled out by Elaine Showalter in her recent book on American women writers and was included in the collection <I>Five Hundred Great Books by Women</I>.</p><p><B>Dorothy Canfield Fisher</B> (1879-1958) was one of America's best-known novelists. <I>The Home-Maker</I> has been a bestseller for Persephone Books in the United Kingdom, and with this edition it will be widely available in the United States.</p></DIV>