The Guarded Heights is a 1921 novel by Wadsworth Camp. It follows George Morton, a young man of rural origins whose father's livery business is undermined by cheap automobiles, as he forms an unlikely attachment to Sylvia Planter and struggles against social barriers. It is a story of ambition, class, and self-making in early twentieth-century American life.
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Opening of the book
THE GUARDED HEIGHTS BY WADSWORTH CAMP FRONTISPIECE BY C. D. MITCHELL GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT 1920, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY "GEORGE WATCHED SYLVIA LIFT HER RIDING CROP, HER FACE DISCLOSING A TEMPER TO MATCH HIS OWN" CONTENTS PART I Oakmont PART II Princeton PART III The Market-Place PART IV The Forest PART V The New World
Books by Wadsworth Camp THE GUARDED HEIGHTS PART I OAKMONT I George Morton never could be certain when he first conceived the preposterous idea that Sylvia Planter ought to belong to him. The full realization, at any rate, came all at once, unexpectedly, destroying his dreary outlook, urging him to fantastic heights, and, for that matter, to rather curious depths. It was, altogether, a year of violent change. After a precarious survival of a rural education he had done his best to save his father's livery business which cheap automobiles had persistently undermined. He liked that, for he had spent his vacations, all his spare hours, indeed, at the stable or on the road, so that by the time the crash came he knew more of horses and rode better than any hunting, polo-playing gentleman he had ever seen about that rich countryside. Nor was there any one near his own age who could stand up to him in a rough-and-tumble argument. Yet he wondered why he was restless, not appreciating that he craved broader worlds to conquer. Then the failure came, and his close relation with the vast Planter estate of Oakmont, and the arrival of Sylvia, who disclosed such worlds and heralded the revolution.
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