On the shores of Cayuga Lake, within sight of Cornell’s towers, a community of squatter fishermen lives in shanties under constant threat of eviction. Tess, a fierce and unschooled girl who speaks the dialect of the storm country, clings to her father when he is taken to prison at Auburn, shelters a suffering child, and falls for a student from the wealthy world that despises her people.
A stirring melodrama of class and loyalty, twice filmed with Mary Pickford as Tess. Download the free EPUB.