Allen, James Lane 1849-1925

The choir invisible by James Lane Allen( Book )

128 editions published between 1897 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen, appeared in 1897, and is one of his most popular and pleasing stories. It was enlarged from an earlier story called ‘John Gray.’ Its scene is the Kentucky of a hundred years ago. The hero is John Gray, a schoolmaster and idealist, who, disappointed in his love for Amy Falconer, a pert, pretty, shallow flirt, gradually comes to care for Mrs. Falconer, her aunt, a noble woman in reduced circumstances, who with her husband has left a former stately home in Virginia and come to live in the Kentucky wilderness. She loves him in return with a deep, tender passion that has in it something of the motherly instinct of protection; but, her husband being alive, she conceals her feeling from Gray until after he has departed from Lexington and settled in another State. She then writes him to say she is free--and he replies that he is married. But he tells her in a final letter that she has remained his ideal and guiding star to noble action. The romantic atmosphere and the ideal cast of these two leading characters make the fiction very attractive; and the fresh picturesque descriptions of pioneer life in Kentucky give the tale historical value"--Bartleby.com

A Kentucky cardinal; a story by James Lane Allen( Book )

113 editions published between 1891 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,374 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set in 1850, this novel features a romance between a naturalist and a society girl

Flute and violin and other Kentucky tales and romances by James Lane Allen( Book )

82 editions published between 1891 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The reign of law : a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen( Book )

50 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in English and held by 747 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An historical novel which presents the economic importance of hemp as a early raw material for clothing, maritime ropes, and other cordage products. There is information about the growing and harvesting of hemp in this book

The mettle of the pasture by James Lane Allen( Book )

55 editions published between 1903 and 2014 in English and held by 669 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Though James Lane Allen's The Mettle of the Pasture is rife with the lush descriptions and strong sense of place that imbue his previous works, the central focus of this novel is on the complicated nuances of the blossoming love between protagonists Isabel and Rowan, proving that Allen is as skilled in creating unforgettable characters and dramatic tension as he is at depicting the contours of the natural landscape

A Kentucky cardinal ; and Aftermath by James Lane Allen( Book )

59 editions published between 1896 and 2012 in English and held by 566 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1850's rural Kentucky, a naturalist weds a society girl following a tumultuous courtship marred by her jealousy of his interest in birds. After his wife's death, the bereaved husband retreats from society and returns to his studies of nature

Aftermath. Part second of "A Kentucky cardinal," by James Lane Allen( Book )

50 editions published between 1895 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The novel 1894 novel A Kentucky Cardinal was an immediate hit and helped to establish not only the literary reputation of its author, James Lane Allen, but also the ""local color"" movement in American literature, which sought to document and delve into the peculiarities and unique attributes of regional cultures. Aftermath is the sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal and picks up where the previous tale left off

The bride of the mistletoe by James Lane Allen( Book )

25 editions published between 1909 and 2014 in English and held by 383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The doctor's Christmas eve by James Lane Allen( Book )

20 editions published between 1910 and 2014 in English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the nineteenth-century rural South, country doctors were often much more than just physicians. They played a part in the personal dramas, important milestones, and life-or-death decisions of virtually every family in a fifty-mile radius. In this charming novel, one such doctor reflects on his life over the past year as the holiday season approaches

Summer in Arcady : a tale of nature by James Lane Allen( Book )

40 editions published between 1896 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide