Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A book of social history.

This is a depression era story, written with a deliberately unsophisticated tone, suggestive of the "common people". It is an interesting novel of social history, with one character who is well developed. Fortunately, she is the most important character, a solidly grounded woman of the middle class who marries a shallow salesman. Her experiences as a newly wed, and her enjoyment of the beauties of living by the ocean transcend the times. The social history focuses on a New England mill, and a terrible strike which occurs there, but a broader picture is painted, including the very rich. Warnings: it is not like the other Shreve books I have read in style; the book may induce you to sell all your stocks.