St. Elmo: Or, Saved at LastSt. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold over a million copies in four months and became one of the nineteenth century’s most influential novels. This edition includes an introduction by Evans scholar Diane Roberts about the enduring relevance and legacy of St. Elmo as a work of literature as well as a reflection of gender roles and the seismic societal changes taking place in the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. |
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Page 143
... certainly extended acquaintance , I swear I envy above all others that handsome monk whom Curzon found at Simopetra , who had never seen a woman ! He was transplanted to the Holy Mountain while a mere infant , and though assured he had ...
... certainly extended acquaintance , I swear I envy above all others that handsome monk whom Curzon found at Simopetra , who had never seen a woman ! He was transplanted to the Holy Mountain while a mere infant , and though assured he had ...
Page 166
... certainly deny , were the subject of sufficient importance to justify a discussion . How- ever I have been absent so long from America that I confess my ignorance of the last social advance in the striding enlightenment of this most ...
... certainly deny , were the subject of sufficient importance to justify a discussion . How- ever I have been absent so long from America that I confess my ignorance of the last social advance in the striding enlightenment of this most ...
Page 240
... certainly he is not half so brilliant as- " She did not complete the parallel , but compressed her lips , took up her pen and began to write . On the following morning Mrs. Andrews came into the school- room , and , after kissing the ...
... certainly he is not half so brilliant as- " She did not complete the parallel , but compressed her lips , took up her pen and began to write . On the following morning Mrs. Andrews came into the school- room , and , after kissing the ...
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