The Nowadays Girls in the Adirondacks or, The deserted bungalow on Saranac LakeGertrude Hall BrownellOmniClassics · Literature
The Nowadays Girls in the Adirondacks or, The deserted bungalow on Saranac Lake
Gertrude Hall BrownellFour former school friends take their informal club into the Adirondacks.
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About the book
Sylvia Pursell, Rose Bancroft, Alice Harrow, and Hazel Reed have carried their school friendship into the Nowadays Club, an organization whose informality leaves plenty of room for individual opinions. Plans for a mountain holiday bring the group together, with travel, clothes, canoeing, and companionship all contributing to their anticipation. The trip also acquires uncertainties that lead toward a deserted bungalow on Saranac Lake. Gertrude Calvert Hall combines the girls' conversation and social interests with outdoor experience and a developing mystery, allowing moments of anxiety to interrupt the pleasures they expected. Their different personalities remain central as they encounter unfamiliar surroundings and find that being modern, confident young women does not remove the need for practical mutual help.
- Female friendship
- Travel and independence
- Holiday adventure
Why read it
Follow a sociable quartet whose vacation moves between fashionable recreation, outdoor challenges, and suspense.
English text of Gertrude Calvert Hall's 1915 novel
Contents and reading sections
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Section 11
- Section 12
- Section 13
- Section 14
- Section 15
- Section 16
- Section 17
- Section 18
- Section 19
- Section 20
- Section 21
- Section 22
- Section 23
- Section 24
- Section 25
- Section 26
- Section 27
- Section 28
- Section 29
- Section 30
- Section 31
- Section 32