In the canon
Ruth
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1853
- Pages
- Pages 460
A sixteen-year-old orphan is seduced, abandoned pregnant, and taken in by a minister who passes her off as a respectable widow. Years later the lie comes out, and she spends what is left of her life proving the town wrong.
The time that has pressed down my life like brands of hot iron, and scarred me for ever, has been nothing to you.
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