The Nightingale

First edition
Author	Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	1960
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	403
OCLC	1390870
Preceded by	The Golden Journey
Followed by	The King's Orchard

The Nightingale is a novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) set in a fictional rural Western Pennsylvania village (but much like the author's birthplace of New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, about thirty miles east of Pittsburgh) at the turn of the 20th century.

Violet Carpenter is already considered a spinster at age twenty-five when financial necessity forces her to take in lodgers. Her avocation, however, is to write poetry. To her astonishment, both paths lead to romantic crossroads.

• Turnbull, Agnes Sligh (1960). The Nightingale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Demarest, David P. (1976). From These Hills, From These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1123-X.

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