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The Mettle of the Pasture

Pages
253

About this book

“The Mettle of the Pasture” is a novel by James Lane Allen. It is considered a significant work by Kentucky’s first important novelist, capturing the spirit and idioms of his native state during the loud times of the Civil War and the post-Civil War Reconstruction age.

Contents

  1. Part First
  2. II · Isabel slept soundly, the regular habit of…
  3. III · The Conyers homestead was situated in a…
  4. IV · The hot day ended. Toward sunset a…
  5. V · Out in the country next morning it…
  6. VI · The noise of wheels on the gravel…
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About the author

James Lane Allen

James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late 19th-century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction.

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Pages
253
Language
English
Formats
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