Nick Burr, the son of a struggling Kingsborough farmer, is set on rising above his father’s fields through education and the law. His ambition carries him into the courtroom and the state legislature, while his love for Eugenia Battle, daughter of a proud old family, runs into the barriers of class that still rule post-Reconstruction Virginia.
An early Glasgow novel of 1900 that set out her lifelong subject, the clash of the old and new South. Download the free EPUB.