At Talbot’s Cross-roads, a sleepy Southern settlement, the huge, slow, kindly Tom De Willoughby keeps the store and quietly takes in those the community has cast off, including a motherless child. His estranged gentry family, an old disgrace and a wrong left over from before the Civil War slowly come together around the claim of the title.
A long, humane 1899 novel of the American South from the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy; its dialect and racial portraits are those of its day. Download the free EPUB.