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Jerome, A Poor Man: A Novel

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
11 hours 41 minutes
ISBN
9781836100225
Published
7 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • poverty
  • resilience
  • rural life
  • childhood
  • social class
  • pride
  • family struggle
  • innocence
  • hardship
  • dignity

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Twelve-year-old Jerome Edwards grows up in stark New England poverty, proud enough to refuse charity yet hungry enough to feel every kindness as a wound. Cold, shame, and a tense home life press on dignity that will not break. Spoken as when Jerome, a poor man, still asks what pride can keep when spring sun is all the wealth a boy can afford.

Author

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and wrote the New England village as if every parlour were a theatre of will. A New England Nun is the famous short weather of a woman who will not be hurried into marriage; Pembroke is the same climate at novel length — pride, church, and a stubbornness that can freeze a town. She later took the Howells Medal. The regional is never small in her hands. Thrift has a pulse.

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