Books with author Augusta Evans Wilson

"A Speckled Bird" by Augusta J. Evans. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"The elegant English of 'A Speckled Bird' knows no bounds....It is a fresh phase of the new order of things." -The Bookman "Mrs. Wilson is not a novelist that writes hastily. It is sixteen years since she gave her last book, 'At the Mercy of Tiberius,' to the world, and now she comes 'to those kind readers, known and unknown, who have desired her to write again,' with a story as vigorous, as passionate and as compelling in its interest as any that has ever proceeded from her pen." -Charleston News and Courier "There is a tragic undercurrent in it all, like a Maeterlinck theme, a passionate note or sorrow, a story of intense dramatic interest that never loosens its hold upon the reader for a moment, while it ends happily." -Birmingham Age-Herald "This new romance will possess for us a charm not unlike that which we would feel if Sir Walter Scott could in some way dictate another romance through some occult medium and give it to the world. 'A Speckled Bird' is an absorbing romance well worthy of this delightful Southern writer." -Memphis Commercial Appeal "The story is vital and thrilling. It deals with Southern life since the civil war, and portrays with consummate art the deep, impassionate feelings of intense people." -Atlanta News "Her style is easy and her imagination never falters. It cannot be denied that her school is an ethical force, for by it a great circle receives fiction which ever teaches the triumph of righteousness and the ruin of wrong." -Boston Daily Advertiser "There is not one perfunctory word in it. Mrs. Wilson's view of life and her attitude toward her characters are never blasé. She exhibits extreme solicitude about the destiny of her men and women, and by that the unfeigned interest she succeeds in compelling interest on the part of her reader hardly second to her own." -Chicago Daily Tribune "It is a piece of work far better than many of the 'bestselling novels' of recent seasons. Mrs. Wilson proves that she is a vigorous and able veteran of letters, and it will be welcome by al the quondam admirers of 'St. Elmo.' They are legion." -Eleanor M. Hoyt, The Book Buyer "There is in the book all the peculiarities that have distinguished the former works of our author, but there is, too, a freshness and present interest that makes the book especially attractive to those who desire a place in their fiction for the latest happenings of the world around them." -Baltimore Sun "Far above the average work of fiction." -Louisville Courier-Journal "Will be read with avidity by the multitude, because it lays bare the great emotions that appeal to universal human sympathy." -Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer