Portrait of Jennie
 Robert Nathan

   
WHO WAS SHE? WHERE HAD SHE COME FROM?
 
Was Jennie a dream, a memory, a lovely ghost from the past? Or had she stepped from another world into this?
 
Eben Adams could only guess at the answer. But he understood that Jennie, because she dared to love him, had fused past and present into the delightful, delicate magic of "now."
 
And tomorrow? Could Jennie triumph over tomorrow too?
 
"A beautiful work of art" William Lyon Phelps
 
"A romantic jewel shining bravely in a world too noisy to hear… perfect." New York World Telegram
 
"I doubt if anyone writing today could have told it with greater tenderness or with quite the blend of humor and imagination which the book has on every page." William Maxwell in The Saturday Review
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Robert Nathan (1894-1985) was born in New York City, and was educated at private schools in the United States and Switzerland. While attending Harvard University he was an editor of the Harvard Monthly, in which his first stories and poems appeared.
 
Except for two short periods during which he was a solicitor for a New York advertising firm and a teacher in the School of Journalism of New York University, Mr. Nathan devoted his time exclusively to writing. He acquired a reputation as a master of satiric fantasy unique in American letters.