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by Richard Russo
About 113 pages (33,744 words)
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Empire Falls Study Guide consists of approx. 112 pages of summaries and analysis on Empire Falls by Richard Russo. Browse the literature study guide below:

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Located 50 miles inland from the sea, Empire Falls is a small town in Maine on the Knox River. The Whiting's are the wealthiest and most powerful family in town with a traditional family mansion downtown. Surround the mansion are the industries they have spawned over the generations. Charles Beaumont Whiting, son and heir apparent to the Whiting fortune, returned from 10 years in Mexico where he was pursuing empty dreams as an untalented artist and poet, as well as having a good time chasing women and lying on the beach. When he returns to Empire Falls, he is in his late twenties. Charles grows into middle age through the course of the Prologue. Charles is reconciled to his destiny, which is to carry on in the family tradition of running the family industries, although he believes he left his "better self" in Mexico. Realizing he has grey hair, Charles has something of an epiphany. People are mistaking him for his father, Honus and his dreams of Mexico are dead. (read more)
      Prologue
      Part 1, Chapter 1
      Part 1, Chapter 2
      Part 1, Chapter 3
      Part 1, Chapter 4
      Part 1, Chapter 5
      Part 1, Chapter 6
      Part 1, Chapter 7
      Part 1, Chapter 8
      Part 2, Chapter 9
      Part 2, Chapter 10
      Part 2, Chapter 11
      Part 2, Chapter 12
      Part 2, Chapter 13
      Part 2, Chapter 14
      Part 3, Chapter 15
      Part 3, Chapter 16
      Part 3, Chapter 17
      Part 3, Chapter 18
      Part 3, Chapter 19
      Part 3, Chapter 20
      Part 3, Chapter 21
      Part 3, Chapter 22
      Part 4, Chapter 23
      Part 4, Chapter 24
      Part 4, Chapter 25
      Part 4, Chapter 26
      Part 4, Chapter 27
      Part 4, Chapter 27
      Part 4, Chapter 28
      Part 4, Chapter 29
      Part 4, Chapter 30
      Part 4, Chapter 31
      Part 4, Chapter 32
      Epilogue and Analysis

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