Opie Percival Read was one of the most widely read American humorists of the 1890s, celebrated for his warmly comic portraits of Southern rural life and character. Old Ebenezer features the kind of shrewdly drawn, affectionate characters that made Read a bestselling author in his day, delivered with his characteristic narrative ease and genuine fondness for the world he was describing.
Read has largely faded from the public memory that once celebrated him, but his fiction retains a genuine charm and a strong sense of time and place. Download this free EPUB and rediscover one of the popular comic writers of the Gilded Age South.