The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen, book cover

The Mettle of the Pasture

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First published
1903
Pages
253

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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.

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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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First published
1903
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
253
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online