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 69
... night ? But the gilding glamour of childlike hope softens and shields from view the rough inequalities and murderous quicksands of futurity , mellowing all , like the silvery lustre of Kensett's " Ullswater , " or the rich purple haze ...
... night ? But the gilding glamour of childlike hope softens and shields from view the rough inequalities and murderous quicksands of futurity , mellowing all , like the silvery lustre of Kensett's " Ullswater , " or the rich purple haze ...
Page 161
... night ? You look very much fatigued ! " < ; " Nothing , I believe . Good - night , child . Send Hagar to me . " Edna went back to her desk , and resolutely turned to her work for it was one of the peculiar traits of her character that ...
... night ? You look very much fatigued ! " < ; " Nothing , I believe . Good - night , child . Send Hagar to me . " Edna went back to her desk , and resolutely turned to her work for it was one of the peculiar traits of her character that ...
Page 248
... night ? " A slight tremor crossed his lips ; the petrified hawthorn was quivering into life . " She is quite well ... night , he said to Edna : " Go to sleep at once ; do not sit up to work to - night . " Did she follow his sage advice ...
... night ? " A slight tremor crossed his lips ; the petrified hawthorn was quivering into life . " She is quite well ... night , he said to Edna : " Go to sleep at once ; do not sit up to work to - night . " Did she follow his sage advice ...
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