A Kentucky Cardinal - Couverture souple

Allen, James Lane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438534515 ISBN 13 : 9781438534510

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2010

Synopsis

James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925) was an American writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work has been described as late 19th century local color era writing. A Kentucky Cardinal, set in 1850, features a romance between a naturalist and a society girl. Aftermath is the sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal

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Présentation de l'éditeur

All this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even the landscapes of frost on the window-panes did not melt a flower, and the little trees still keep their silvery boughs arched high above the jeweled avenues. During the afternoon a lean hare limped twice across the lawn, and there was not a creature stirring to chase it. Now the night is bitter cold, with no sounds outside but the cracking of the porches as they freeze tighter. Even the north wind seems grown too numb to move. I had determined to convert its coarse, big noise into something sweet—as may often be done by a little art with the things of this life—and so stretched a horse-hair above the opening between the window sashes; but the soul of my harp has departed. I hear but the comfortable roar and snap of hickory logs, at long intervals a deeper breath from the dog stretched on his side at my feet, and the crickets under the hearth-stones. They have to thank me for that nook. One chill afternoon I came upon a whole company of them on the western slope of a woodland mound, so lethargic that I thumped them repeatedly before they could so much as get their senses. There was a branch near by, and the smell of mint in the air, so that had they been young Kentuckians one might have had a clew to the situation. With an ear for winter minstrelsy, I brought two home in a handkerchief, and assigned them an elegant suite of apartments under a loose brick.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Kentucky Cardinal is American writer James Lane Allen's third novel. It was in 1894 as the first of the A Kentucky Cardinal series.Work from "Kentucky's first important novelist" and an attempt to capture the spirit, and dialects, of his native Kentucky in the United States during the Civil War and post Civil War reconstruction era. Flute And Violin And Other Kentucky Tales And Romances Shows that there was an imaginative height and a poetic depth to be touched which no previous hand had reached in this class of historic fiction." Contents: - Flute and Violin - King Solomon of Kentucky - Two Gentlemen of Kentucky - The White Cowl - Sister Dolorosa - Posthumous Fame

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438534515
• ISBN 13: 9781438534510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 62
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible