The law of the land : of Miss Lady, whom it involved in mystery, and of John Eddring, gentleman of the South, who read its deeper meaning : a novel /
A romance of the Mississippi Delta, involving the most vital expression of the Southerner's view of the race problem that has yet appeared in fiction. The author describes the "black volcano" over which white Southerners live, in an intensely realistic manner. His knowledge of the whi...
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| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis :
The Bobbs-Merrill Company,
c1904.
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| Summary: | A romance of the Mississippi Delta, involving the most vital expression of the Southerner's view of the race problem that has yet appeared in fiction. The author describes the "black volcano" over which white Southerners live, in an intensely realistic manner. His knowledge of the white man's burden, his keen descriptions of Northern mis-apprehension, equal his tremendous power as a story-teller and his elemental sense of humor |
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| Item Description: | Verso of t.p.: October. Verso of t.p.: Press of Braunworth & Co., bookbinders and printers, Brooklyn, N.Y. Frontispiece and plates facing p. 58, 140, 358, 402 and 410. Advertisements on p. [3]-[8] at end. |
| Physical Description: | [10], 416, [8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. |