In the Virginia of the 1850s, the wild young Dan Montjoy grows up at his grandfather Major Lightfoot’s house and falls in love with Betty Ambler from the neighbouring plantation. The war takes him into the Confederate army and through hunger, battle and defeat, while Betty holds things together at home.
An early Glasgow novel of the South, whose picture of plantation life and Black characters reflects 1902 attitudes. Download the free EPUB.
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