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"The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories" is a collection of fascinating short tales authored by Vaughan Kester, an American creator who was extraordinarily popular within the overdue 1800s and early 1900s. Kester's series of brief stories is sort of a tapestry: it's full of colorful pictures of different parts of existence in America throughout that point. The foremost tale of the gathering is "The Hand of the Mighty," which is about inside the American South and offers with topics like preference, power, and the complicated courting between lifestyle and progress. Kester is a splendid storyteller who can weave difficult plots and create characters that readers can relate to. His books of...
A passage from the book... The Quintards had not prospered on the barren lands of the pine woods whither they had emigrated to escape the malaria of the low coast, but this no longer mattered, for the last of his name and race, old General Quintard, was dead in the great house his father had built almost a century before and the thin acres of the Barony, where he had made his last stand against age and poverty, were to claim him, now that he had given up the struggle in their midst. The two or three old slaves about the place, stricken with a sense of the futility of the fight their master had made, mourned for him and for themselves, but of his own blood and class none was present.Shy dwell...
Reproduction of the original: The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester
Reproduction of the original: The Prodigal Judge by Vaughan Kester
The Prodigal Judge The Just and the Unjust
Vaughan Kester "The Fortune of the Landrays" is a fascinating book that tells a tale of affection, thriller, and the way society works in opposition to the backdrop of a changing America. Kester writing seems into the complex relationships between money, choice, and how societal expectancies alternate through the years. The tale takes region in the made-up town of Landray, wherein the Landray family finds themselves in an internet of hard family and social situations. The radical talks about love, loyalty, and the hunt of happiness at the same time as the own family struggles with money problems and the results of their other alternatives. Vaughan Kester tales are acknowledged for having shi...
A passage from the book... Custer felt it his greatest privilege to sit of a Sunday morning in his mother's clean and burnished kitchen and, while she washed the breakfast dishes, listen to such reflections as his father might care to indulge in.On these occasions the senior Shrimplin, commonly called Shrimp by his intimates, was the very picture of unconventional ease-taking as he lolled in his chair before the kitchen stove, a cracker box half filled with sawdust conveniently at hand.As far back as his memory went Custer could recall vividly these Sunday mornings, with the church bells ringing peacefully beyond the windows of his modest home, and his father in easy undress, just emerged fr...
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Family chronicle in an Ohio town in the 1800's.