A Northern visitor to the old Southern city of Kings Port, a thin disguise for Charleston, stops at the Woman’s Exchange for lunch and becomes fascinated by the girl behind the counter and by the young man ordering a Lady Baltimore cake for his own wedding. The novel takes its sympathies from the city’s old families, and its views on race and Reconstruction side openly with the white South of 1906.
A lightly comic novel of manners from the author of The Virginian, best read with its prejudices in view. Download the free EPUB.