Christopher Blake, heir of an old Virginia family, toils as a tobacco farmer on the land his family once owned, while the former overseer Bill Fletcher lives in Blake Hall. Christopher’s blind mother is kept from knowing the Confederacy fell, and his consuming hatred for Fletcher shapes his revenge, until he falls for Fletcher’s granddaughter.
A powerful early novel of class and the post-war South by the Pulitzer-winning Virginian. Download the free EPUB.
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