The Story of a Country Town / / E. W. Howe; ed. by Claude M. Simpson.

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• VerfasserIn: Howe, E. W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Simpson, Claude M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The John Harvard Library ; 87
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHRONOLOGY OF E. W. HOWE'S LIFE -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PREFACE -- I. FAIRVIEW -- II. THE HELL QUESTION, AND THE REV. JOHN WESTLOCK -- III. THE HOUSE OF ERRING -- IV. THE RELIGION OF FAIRVIEW -- V. THE SCHOOL IN THE CHURCH -- VI. DAMON BARKER -- VII. A NEW DISPENSATION -- VIII. THE SMOKY HILL SECRET -- IX. THE CHARITY OF SILENCE -- X. JO ERRING MAKES A FULL CONFESSION -- XI. WITH REFERENCE TO A MAN WHO WAS SENT WEST TO GROW UP WITH THE COUNTRY, OR GET KILLED -- XII. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM -- XIII. THE FLOCK OF THE GOODE SHEPHERD -- XIV. I AM SURPRISED -- XV. THE COUNTRY TOWN -- XVI. MORE OF THE VILLAGE OF TWIN MOUNDS -- XVII. THE FELLOW -- XVIII. THE MILL AT ERRING'S FORD -- XIX. THE FALL OF REV. JOHN WESTLOCK -- XX. TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE -- XXI. THE PECULIARITIES OF A COUNTRY TOWN -- XXII. A SKELETON IN THE HOUSE AT ERRING'S FORD -- XXIII. THE SHADOW IN THE SMOKY HILLS -- XXIV. A LETTER FROM JO -- XXV. THE SEA GIVES UP ITS DEAD -- XXVI. BARKER'S STORY -- XXVII. THE LIGHT GOES OUT FOREVER -- XXVIII. TOO LATE -- XXIX. THE SKELETON AGAIN -- XXX. A LETTER FROM MR. BIGGS -- XXXI. KILLED AT THE FORD -- XXXII. THE TWIN MOUNDS JAIL -- XXXIII. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND -- XXXIV. THE GRAVE BY THE PATH -- XXXV THE HISTORY OF A MISTAKE -- XXXVI. CONCLUSION -- Backmatter