The Circuit Rider (Classic Reprint): A Tale of the Heroic Age - Couverture souple

Edward Eggleston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330605039 ISBN 13 : 9781330605035

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Epic frontier life, faith, and a prodigal's return set amid the rough beauty of early America.

This historical novel brings to life the harsh realities and colorful characters of the West as a young man struggles with temptation, duty, and love. Told with clear, compassionate detail, it follows a preacher’s world and the family he tests, offering a sweeping glimpse of a nation on the edge of change.

The book blends vivid scenes of corn-shucking, camp meetings, and rugged travel with intimate portraits of faith, doubt, and longing. Its strong sense of place sits beside a quietly dramatic love story, where personal vows meet the demands of community and conscience.

• Experience a richly painted landscape of 19th-century American life, from local superstition to open road and field.
• Meet memorable figures, from sturdy mothers and crash-landing ambitions to fiery preachers and stubborn neighbors.
• See how faith, pride, and forgiveness collide in a town where every choice echoes through families and friendships.
• Follow a prodigal’s return and the deep questions it raises about love, loyalty, and the struggle to do right.

Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fiction that pairs frontier adventure with human drama and spiritual inquiry.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age

Obligations of a novelist to tell the truth. Lawyers and even ministers are permitted to speak entirely on one side. But no man is worthy to be called a novelist who does not endeavor with his whole soul to produce the higher form of history, by writing truly of men as they are, and dispassionately of those forms of life that come within his scope.

Much as I have laughed at every sort of grotesquerie, I could not treat the early religious life of the West otherwise than with the most cordial sympathy and admiration. And yet this is not a religious novel, one in which all the bad people are as bad as they can be, and all the good people a little better than they can be. I have not even asked myself what may be the moral. The story of any true life is wholesome, if only the writer will tell it simply, keeping impertinent preachment of his own out of the way.

Doubtless I shall hopelessly damage myself with some good people by confessing in the start that, from the first chapter to the last, this is a love-story. But it is not my fault. It is God who made love so universal that no picture of human life can be complete where love is left out.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330605039
• ISBN 13: 9781330605035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 342
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