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Barriers Burned Away

by Edward Payson Roe

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1872
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Edward Payson Roe wrote this, his first novel, after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and the disaster becomes the story's climax. Dennis Fleet arrives in Chicago poor and grieving after his father's death, taking work in an art dealer's store while pursuing an education and the affection of Christine Ludolph, his employer's proud, cultured daughter. Faith, honest labor, and hardship slowly wear down the social and spiritual barriers between them until the city itself goes up in flames. Roe was a Presbyterian minister, and the book carries a plain evangelical earnestness that made it one of the runaway bestsellers of its day. A period romance and a vivid record of Chicago before and during the fire.

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Edward Payson Roe

Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American Presbyterian minister and Civil War chaplain who turned to fiction after witnessing the Chicago fire. His earnest, morally themed novels made him one of the best-selling American authors of the 1870s and 1880s. He was also a serious horticulturist.

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First published
1872
Reading time
About 10 hours
Pages
358
Language
English
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