The Dusantes (Annotated)

Frank Richard Stockton's *The Dusantes* is a novel of family identity, courtship, and social negotiation, organized around the tensions generated when private feeling encounters inherited loyalties and public expectation. Its interest lies less in melodramatic incident than in the gradual disclosure of motives, manners, and moral evasions within the Dusante circle. Stockton's prose is lucid, light...