Stories of Pre-and Post-Civil War Virginia society.
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Thomas Nelson Page was a major figure in the Genteel School of Southern letters in the postbellum period. Among his works were commentaries on Southern social conditions as well as his fiction, which includes Red Rock and the popular Two Little Confederates.
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Origin of the Plantation Tradition in American Letters,
This review is from: In Ole Virginia: Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories (Southern Classics Series) (Paperback)
Although the dialect rendering of Black English in these short stories may offend today's delicate politcal sensibilities, the reader should bear in mind that these stories were written in another century for a different audience. Get past that, and you have pure Plantation Tradition - the same tradition that inspired Margaret Mitchell and disgusted William Faulkner, James Branch Cabell, and Ellen Glasgow. The stories are simple, sincere and guaranteed to elicit emotion. Marse Chan is an American Classic, and No Haid Pawn has been likened to a tale of Poe. Get this, read it, and if you don't see life in Ante-bellum Virginia as it was, you can see it as Page thought it should have been.
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ONE afternoon, in the autumn of 1872, I was riding leisurely down the sandy road that winds along the top of the water-shed between two of the smaller rivers of eastern Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dee wuz, twuz jes, dee jes, gret house, ole marster, whar wuz, ole missis, ole mistis, say nuttin, done git, dat night, wuz gwine, dat thing, dat wuz, fust thing, dat ain, dey wuz, ole times, dat day, bout dat, hit look, dis time, dat time, wid dat, whole plantation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Meh Lady, Marse Chan, Marse George, Miss Charlotte, Marse Phil, Miss Anne, Cun'l Chahmb'lin, Story of the War, Miss Lucy, Ham Fisher, Cap'n Wilton, Christmas Eve, Miss Polly, Aunt Haly, Drinkwater Torm, Jack Forester, Marge Chan, Marse Bob, Nth Lady, Gener'l Lee, New York New!
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ONE afternoon, in the autumn of 1872, I was riding leisurely down the sandy road that winds along the top of the water-shed between two of the smaller rivers of eastern Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dee wuz, twuz jes, dee jes, gret house, ole marster, whar wuz, ole missis, ole mistis, say nuttin, done git, dat night, wuz gwine, dat thing, dat wuz, fust thing, dat ain, dey wuz, ole times, dat day, bout dat, hit look, dis time, dat time, wid dat, whole plantation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Meh Lady, Marse Chan, Marse George, Miss Charlotte, Marse Phil, Miss Anne, Cun'l Chahmb'lin, Story of the War, Miss Lucy, Ham Fisher, Cap'n Wilton, Christmas Eve, Miss Polly, Aunt Haly, Drinkwater Torm, Jack Forester, Marge Chan, Marse Bob, Nth Lady, Gener'l Lee, New York New!
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- In Ole Virginia: Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories (Southern Classics Series) by Thomas Nelson Page in Front Matter
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