At the Mercy of Tiberius - Couverture souple

Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479411213 ISBN 13 : 9781479411214

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2021

Synopsis

When a young woman is accused of a terrible crime, her fate is bound to the testimony of a man who holds her future in his hands. Set in the post-Civil War South, the story follows her struggle for justice against prejudice, pride, and social suspicion. Themes of honor, sacrifice, and duty are woven through the courtroom drama as she faces relentless challenges to her integrity. The novel examines how personal ambition and social standing collide with truth, and how the bonds of family and love are tested when everything is at stake. In vivid prose and dramatic tension, At the Mercy of Tiberius captures the turbulence of Reconstruction-era life and the precarious balance between reputation and redemption.

Augusta Evans Wilson, (1835-1909) was an American Southern author and one of the pillars of Southern literature. She wrote nine novels: Inez (1850), Beulah (1859), Macaria (1863), St. Elmo (1866), Vashti (1869), Infelice (1875), At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887), A Speckled Bird (1902), and Devota (1907). Given her support for the Confederate States of America from the perspective of a Southern patriot, and her literary activities during the American Civil War, she can be deemed as having contributed decisively to the literary and cultural development of the Confederacy in particular, and of the South in general.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

You wou Wrather see me suffer and die, than bend youi stubborn pride in the effort to obtain relief for me, You will not try to save me. The thin, hysterically unsteady voice ended in a sob, and the frail wasted form of the speaker leaned for ward, as if the issue of life or death hung upon an answer. The tower clock of a neighboring church began to strike the hour of noon, and not until the echo of the last stroke had died away, was there a reply to the appeal. Mother, try to be just to me. My pride is for you, not for myself. I shrink from seeing my mother crawl to the feet of a man, who has disowned and spurned her; I cannot consent that she should humbly beg for rights, so unnaturally withheld. Every instinct of my nature revolts from the step you require of me, and I feel as if you held a hot iron in your hand, waiting to brand me. Your proud sensitiveness runs in a strange groove, and it seems you would prefer to see me a pauper in a Hospital, rather than go to your grandfather and ask for help.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479411213
• ISBN 13: 9781479411214
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 537
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible