From What Dark Roots.

[good sound copy, light wear to bottom extremities, minor spotting/soiling to top edge, internally clean; jacket heavily worn, with various tears, creasing/wrinkling, small chip at base of spine, etc.]. Novel that begins in the antebellum South (specifically Natchez, Mississippi), circa 1840, about a young gentleman whose abhorrance of slavery leads to conflict with his father, a wealthy plantation owner. When he accidentally kills another man, he lights out for upstate New York and with his new wife, a well-born New York lady, attempts to live a private utopian life on a farm. It's rough going (the Mrs. doesn't care for the rustic, hard-working life), which creates various rifts within his family, and despite his wish to live apart from the rest of the world, "all the isms and strange religions touched [the protagonist and his family]. Spiritualists, Ascensionists, Mormons, Transcendentalists, came teaching their faiths and making converts." (Quoted from a contemporary review.) And as if that wasn't trouble enough, then the Civil War breaks out. From the jacket blurb: "Cleverly woven into the pattern of character and story is the history of a period when the society of the country was the most dynamic society in the world." This was the last of the author's four published novels, and is a prequel, it seems, to her first, "The Root and the Bough" (1933), which features the same characters much later in their lives (the 1890s).

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Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: (c.1940)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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