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She's ambitious, she's relentless, she's unstoppable - but she can't hide the stain of her working-class roots. A woman big enough for both Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler, Stella Dallas was a best-seller in its time - and a terrific read today. One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season. - New York Times All she wants is to get ahead in the world. But Stella Dallas's world is one that always brings her shame. She marries Stephen Dallas, a man of great refinement, but he cannot tolerate her crudities; when he finally loses patience with her indiscreet flirtations, it's curtains for the marriage. Stella transfers her hopes for the future to her sweet-as-pie daughter, Laurel, and the two live in shabby gentility, a shadow of their former life. While Stella imagines herself the grand lady, her coarseness and rumored exploits with unsavory men bring her public ridicule - and ostracize Laurel from polite society. Stella finally makes the ultimate sacrifice, marrying an alcohol- and drug-addicted man she loathes to force Laurel to leave her and seek the advantages of her father's home and social class. Deeply moving narrative

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Author

Olive Higgins Prouty

Publisher

New York: Perennial Library

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060964498

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.74 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13