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Set in Kentucky, this novel delves into the complexities of love, duty, and the constraints of social norms during the late 19th century. Through its characters, the story examines the interplay between personal desires and societal expectations, offering a poignant reflection on the human experience. James Lane Allen's rich narrative captures the essence of the era while engaging readers with its emotional depth and moral dilemmas.
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This classic novel follows the intersecting lives of two men: a cathedral singer in Europe and a Kentucky cardinal back home in America. Through their correspondence, they explore the themes of art, religion, and love, and offer readers a poignant and thought-provoking meditation on the human condition.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foot-hold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp - with remem-brance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. Away back in the days when they lived with wife, child, flock in frontier wooden fortresses and hardly ventured forth for water, salt, game, tillage - in the very summer of that wild daylight ride of Tomlin-son and Bell, by comparison with which, my children, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, was as tame as the pitching of a rocking-horse in a boy's nursery - on that history-making twelfth of August, of the year 1782, when these two backwoods riflemen, during that same Revolution the Kentuckians then fighting a branch of that same British army, rushed out of Bryan's Station for the rousing of the settlements and the saving of the West - hemp was growing tall and thick near the walls of the fort.
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An Idyl of Immortality
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