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Edward Eggleston

The Graysons: A Story of Illinois

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Nov. 27, 2017)

"The story is told with Mr. Eggleston's usual attractive power, and it well deserves a place among books of fiction which have a right to live because they reproduce with fidelity a phase of our rapidly changing life which has quite disappeared." -The Literary World

"Edward Eggleston, novelist, historian, journalist, and minister of the Gospel...is regarded as a very characteristic product of our American soil." -The Literary Digest

"His men and women, and also his raw boys and his blowsy girls, even his smallest brats, are actually before you, with their primitive, half-barbaric instincts, their lusty woodland ways, their broad humor, their squalor, and their intensely aboriginal native Americanism." -The New York Commercial Advertiser

"Mr. Eggleston displayed a gift equal to that of Cooper for painting American frontier life." -The Kansas City Journal

"He wrote of what he had himself lived, and showed the people whom he had known, with exaggeration or diminution, but with a large, generous and sympathetic comprehension." -The Springfield Republican

"Out of his activity as a novelist and his keen interest in the shifting social conditions...he acquired for himself that ideal of historical research....This ideal was that of reconstructing the entire social conditions of an older period....Mr. Eggleston turned to the history of culture simply because it seemed to him the most natural and delightful way of reentering the past. He spared no pains in research, not because he had acquired a 'scientific method,' but because he had never been without a Hoosier conscience....Every loyal American will find in the sober and complete achievement of Edward Eggleston grounds for believing that far beyond conventional academic limits the country abounds in minds which are scholarly by nature." -The New York Evening Post

"Utilizes the dramatic possibilities of a trial in which Abraham Lincoln was a chief actor." -The Critic

"He sticks to men and things in Illinois which he knows thoroughly; and so long as he finds in Illinois materials for books like 'The Graysons,' no sensible reader will wish him to seek fresh woods and pastures new." -The Spectator

"Mr. Eggleston's pictures of Western life are always worth reading. In 'The Graysons' he has introduced as one of his characters Abraham Lincoln - the main incident of the story being the acquittal of the hero of a charge of murder through Lincoln's dramatic exposure, on the trial, of the perjury of the principal witness for the prosecution. The plot of the story is simple enough, and is made the means of introducing us to Illinois life of a generation ago or more. The dialect is carefully given, and most of the characters drawn with distinct individuality and interest." -The Nation

"A capital story of Illinois, in which Lincoln is a character." -The Atlantic Monthly

ISBN
1981191763 / 9781981191765
Pages
334
Weight
20.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.8 in.

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