This bestselling book inspired the play, motion picture, and television series I Remember Mama.

    If you have room for some fun and old-fashioned enjoyment, Mother's sure to have room for you.

    Beginning in 1905 with ninety-year-old Celia Dunne, it delightfully portrays the bustling life of her heir and grand-nephew, Humphrey Dunne, and his family of five rambunctious children. It follows the family over forty years -- through their youthful antics, merry parties, heartbreaks and loves and marriages, as each in turn comes to maturity and an understanding of the enduring satisfaction Dunnian gives to their lives.

    But it is more than that. Walter D. Edmonds tells how and why John Haskell grew up as he did."It is a very simple story and is concerned partly with what other people did for John, but mostly with what John did for himself. And it is also a true story, for, though John Haskell is an imaginary name, there was a boy named Thomas Fortain who learned about crossing his stream in just this way. As a matter of fact, every man who has ever made anything of his life has had to learn to use two logs where two logs are needed. There is no trick and easy way to dependence, either for a man or a country."To be able to do for oneself in one's own way was the dream which first brought some men to this land. There are a few people who confuse it with becoming rich, but money is not the American Dream and never has been. Money can be made of anything you choose, but a man's life is made of the courage, independence, decency and self-respect he learns to use. That was what the Judge, in his own peculiar way, taught John Haskell. And he also taught him that being independent does not mean looking out solely for one's own interest. A man can only be free if his neighbors are also."