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  • A Kentucky Cardinal

    James Lane Allen

    eBook (, May 17, 2012)
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  • A Kentucky Cardinal A Story

    James Lane Allen

    eBook (, Dec. 18, 2012)
    This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
  • A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

    James Lane Allen

    eBook (Good Press, Dec. 19, 2019)
    "A Kentucky Cardinal" by James Lane Allen. 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.
  • A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

    1849-1925 Allen, James Lane

    eBook (HardPress, June 20, 2016)
    HardPress Classic Books Series
  • A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

    James Lane Allen

    eBook (Library of Alexandria, Dec. 21, 2015)
    All this New-year’s Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even the landscapes of frost on the window-panes did not melt a flower, and the little trees still keep their silvery boughs arched high above the jeweled avenues. During the afternoon a lean hare limped twice across the lawn, and there was not a creature stirring to chase it. Now the night is bitter cold, with no sounds outside but the cracking of the porches as they freeze tighter. Even the north wind seems grown too numb to move. I had determined to convert its coarse, big noise into something sweet—as may often be done by a little art with the things of this life—and so stretched a horse-hair above the opening between the window sashes; but the soul of my harp has departed. I hear but the comfortable roar and snap of hickory logs, at long intervals a deeper breath from the dog stretched on his side at my feet, and the crickets under the hearth-stones. They have to thank me for that nook. One chill afternoon I came upon a whole company of them on the western slope of a woodland mound, so lethargic that I thumped them repeatedly before they could so much as get their senses. There was a branch near by, and the smell of mint in the air, so that had they been young Kentuckians one might have had a clew to the situation. With an ear for winter minstrelsy, I brought two home in a handkerchief, and assigned them an elegant suite of apartments under a loose brick. But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear. Towards dark, having seen to the comfort of a household of kind, faithful fellow-beings, whom man in his vanity calls the lower animals, I went last to walk under the cedars in the front yard, listening to that music which is at once so cheery and so sad—the low chirping of birds at dark winter twilights as they gather in from the frozen fields, from snow-buried shrubbery and hedge-rows, and settle down for the night in the depths of the evergreens, the only refuge from their enemies and shelter from the blast. But this evening they made no ado about their home-coming. To-day perhaps none had ventured forth. I am most uneasy when the red-bird is forced by hunger to leave the covert of his cedars, since he, on the naked or white landscapes of winter, offers the most far-shining and beautiful mark for Death. I stepped across to the tree in which a pair of these birds roost and shook it, to make sure they were at home, and felt relieved when they fluttered into the next with the quick startled notes they utter when aroused.
  • A Kentucky Cardinal

    James Lane Allen

    Paperback (ValdeBooks, Oct. 19, 2009)
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  • A Kentucky Cardinal

    James Lane Allen

    Paperback (Independently published, Oct. 8, 2019)
    James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist". Early life and educationJames Lane Allen was born near Lexington, Kentucky to Richard and Helen Jane (Foster) Allen on December 21, 1849.Allen, the youngest child in the family, had four sisters Lydia, May, Sally, and Annie, and two brothers, John and Henry. Allen lived at the Scarlet Gate estate in Lexington in the late 1800s until age 22 years. Allen spent his youth in Lexington during the Antebellum era, the American Civil War, and the Reconstruction periods. His childhood experience heavily influenced his writing. He described living at Scarlet Gate in the introduction to A Kentucky Cardinal.Death and legacyAllen died "from insomnia" in 1925 , and is buried in Lexington Cemetery. At the northern edge of Gratz Park in Lexington is the "Fountain of Youth", built in memory of Allen using proceeds willed to the city by him.James Lane Allen School, an elementary school off Alexandria Drive in Lexington, Kentucky is named in his honor.
  • A Kentucky Cardinal

    James Lane Allen

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Feb. 4, 2010)
    James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925) was an American writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work has been described as late 19th century local color era writing. A Kentucky Cardinal, set in 1850, features a romance between a naturalist and a society girl. Aftermath is the sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal.
  • A Kentucky Cardinal

    James Lane Allen

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 7, 2015)
    All this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even the landscapes of frost on the window-panes did not melt a flower, and the little trees still keep their silvery boughs arched high above the jeweled avenues. During the afternoon a lean hare limped twice across the lawn, and there was not a creature stirring to chase it. Now the night is bitter cold, with no sounds outside but the cracking of the porches as they freeze tighter.
  • A Kentucky cardinal. A story

    James Lane Allen

    Paperback (Leopold Classic Library, Aug. 5, 2015)
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  • A Kentucky Cardinal.

    James Lane Allen

    (New York, NY Harper & Brothers, Jan. 1, 1898)
    James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925) was an American writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work has been described as late 19th century local color era writing. A Kentucky Cardinal, set in 1850, features a romance between a naturalist and a society girl.
  • A Kentucky Cardinal A Story

    James Lane Allen

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 2, 2014)
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