A simple novel of the late nineteenth century, crowded with good mountain lore. The story is a coming of age tale centering on a twenty-year old mountain girl’s attempts to avoid the situations and errors that have made her parents’ lives so unhappy. Many of the scenes take place around Asheville, but the action later shifts to Massachusetts.
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Comments Off on Maria Louise Pool. Against Human Nature. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.
Filed under 1890-1899, 1895, Buncombe, Coast, Mountains, Novels to Read Online, Pool, Maria Louise
Mr. Pendleton must have read the Bard of Avon because this book has many of the elements of a Shakespeare play: mistaken identity, confused lovers, a kidnapping, a child rescued from danger and raised by guardians. As a toddler, Corona is saved from death by the mountaineer Gideon McLeod. She grows up, happy, with the McLeod family in Lonely Cove until a journalist who’s touring the mountains plays with her heart and spreads lies about the family. One consequence of the journalist’s visit is that the botanist Edward Darnell hears about the flora, fauna, and family in Lonely Cove. Darnell, who was also adopted, is taken with Corona. As the plot unfolds, they find that they have much in common.
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Comments Off on Louis Pendleton. Corona of the Nantahalas. New York: The Merriam Co., 1895.
Filed under 1890-1899, 1895, Macon, Mountains, Novels to Read Online, Pendleton, Louis
