Dennis Fleet, a farm boy left to support his family, goes to Chicago and takes a humble job in an art store, where he falls in love with the owner’s proud, freethinking daughter Christine. Pride, class and religion keep them apart until the Great Fire of 1871 sweeps the city.
Written in the year after the fire, Roe’s first novel became one of the great American bestsellers of the 1870s. Download the free EPUB.
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