The choir invisible /

The choir invisible /

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Author / Creator:	Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925, author.
Edition:	Revised and corrected edition, with illustrations
Imprint:	New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,, 1900. ©1897 ©1898 Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. : Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Description:	363 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Authors, American -- Kentucky. Authors, American. Kentucky -- History -- 1792-1865 -- Fiction. Kentucky. Fiction. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11417660

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Other authors / contributors:	Lowell, Orson, 1871-1956, illustrator. Macmillan Company, publisher. Macmillan & Co., publisher. Norwood Press, printer. J.S. Cushing & Co., printer. Berwick & Smith, printer.
Notes:	"Revised and corrected edition, with illustrations, set up and electrotyped November 1898"--Verso of title-page. A novel.
Summary:	"The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen, appeared in 1897, and is one of his most popular and pleasing stories. It was enlarged from an earlier story called 'John Gray.' Its scene is the Kentucky of a hundred years ago. The hero is John Gray, a schoolmaster and idealist, who, disappointed in his love for Amy Falconer, a pert, pretty, shallow flirt, gradually comes to care for Mrs. Falconer, her aunt, a noble woman in reduced circumstances, who with her husband has left a former stately home in Virginia and come to live in the Kentucky wilderness. She loves him in return with a deep, tender passion that has in it something of the motherly instinct of protection; but, her husband being alive, she conceals her feeling from Gray until after he has departed from Lexington and settled in another State. She then writes him to say she is free--and he replies that he is married. But he tells her in a final letter that she has remained his ideal and guiding star to noble action. The romantic atmosphere and the ideal cast of these two leading characters make the fiction very attractive; and the fresh picturesque descriptions of pioneer life in Kentucky give the tale historical value"--Bartleby.com.

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Call Number:	PS1034.C56 1900
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