Selections from Charles Swain (1906)

Tom Wedderburn’s Life is the story of a simple man born into an isolated community where he is filled with the values and mores of the nineteenth century. It is Tom’s misfortune that the century he must live in is the chaotic twentieth. He lives to see the end of his isolated world. He falls in love with a modern woman he does not understand. As a young man, he endures the hell of World War II.. Left disillusioned and alone in his old age, Tom holds on to his peculiar sense of dignity and even finds a measure of happiness.