The Flaw book cover
Fiction · First published 1919; original Project Gutenberg EPUB · English

The Flaw

by Helen R. Hull

About this book

Celia Duryea wants the things she does to be done perfectly, from a new game to the relationships around her. An encounter involving her father and a young man she has begun to know unsettles the confidence she places in those expectations.

Helen R. Hull’s complete adult short story explores judgment, disappointment and the strain between affection and an ideal of perfection. First published in Harper’s Magazine in October 1919, it retains Walter Biggs’s illustration, engraved by H. Leinroth.