An Imperative Duty

""An Imperative Duty"" is a novel written by William Dean Howells, an American author and literary critic. The book tells the story of a young woman named Lydia Blood who is torn between her loyalty to her family and her desire to follow her heart. Lydia is engaged to a wealthy and respectable man named Robert Pennington, but she finds herself falling in love with a poor artist named Tom Corey. As Lydia struggles to choose between her duty to her family and her own happiness, she must confront the societal expectations and conventions of her time. The novel explores themes of love, duty, and societal expectations, and offers a glimpse into the social and cultural mores of the late 19th century.""They're not so very common, and they're not so very well ascertained. You find them mentioned in the books, but vaguely, and on a kind of hearsay, without the names of persons and places; it's a notion that some writers rather like to toy with; but when you come to boil it down, as the newspapers say, there isn't a great deal of absolute fact there.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.