Alexander's Bridge with The Barrel Organ by Alfred Noyes (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It also ran as a serial in McClure's, giving Cather some free time from her work for that magazine. Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what today would be known as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. The affair proves to gnaw at Bartley's sense of propriety and honor.