The Master of The Inn - Tapa blanda

Robert Herrick (1868-1938) was a University of Chicago English professor from 1893 to 1923. Herrick wrote realistic social novels about the conflict between professional and personal values in American capitalistic society - in the tradition of realism, but influenced by Hawthorne and New England Puritan tradition on the one hand, and the naturalism of the Chicago packing houses on the other. Chicago was the city in which he lived for 30 years and which he viewed with both fascination and revulsion.