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Kentucky in the 1790s: a schoolmaster on the frontier, a woman he cannot have, and a country between the wilderness and the law. Allen grew up on a Kentucky farm ruined by the Civil War and spent his career writing the state into American literature — its hemp fields, its woods, its stiff-necked people. This 1897 novel was the bestseller of its year, and the restraint in it is the point. Fifty-eight plates, among them Thomas Cole and Asher Brown Durand, carry the forest and water scenes that shadow every page of this Kentucky story.
Kentucky in the 1790s: a schoolmaster on the frontier, a woman he cannot have, and a country between the wilderness and the law. Allen grew up on a Kentucky farm ruined by the Civil War and spent his career writing the state into American literature — its hemp fields, its woods, its stiff-necked ...
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James Lane Allen grew up on a Kentucky farm ruined by the Civil War and spent his career writing the state into American literature — its hemp fields, its Presbyterian consciences, its beautiful restraint. The Choir Invisible, set in frontier Lexington, was his greatest success. He took his title from George Eliot's poem about the dead who live on in the good they leave behind.
James Lane Allen grew up on a Kentucky farm ruined by the Civil War and spent his career writing the state into American literature — its hemp fields, its Presbyterian consciences, its beautiful restraint. The Choir Invisible, set in frontier Lexington, was his greatest success. He took his title...
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