A widowed New Yorker watches his three daughters embody divergent paths of a changing modern America.
Books mentioned in His Family (3)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: “invariably he had taken "The Christmas Carol" from its shelf ... as he read of "Tiny Tim" his deepset eyes would glisten with tears”
John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John L. Stoddard: “He picked up the book he had meant to read--Stoddard's "Lectures on Japan."”
Abide With Me by Henry Francis Lyte: “He could almost hear from somewhere the echo of "Abide With Me."”