E-book
Dred : a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807856857
- ISBN: 0807856851
- ISBN: 1469604914
- ISBN: 9781469604916
- ISBN: 0807877298
- ISBN: 9780807877296
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxvii, 616 pages)
remote - Publisher: North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxviii). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Dread; A tale of the great dismal swamp -- I: The mistress of Canema -- Clayton -- The Clayton family and sister Anne -- The Gordon family -- Harry and his wife -- The dilemma -- Consultation -- Old tiff -- The death -- The preparation -- The lovers -- Explanations -- Tom Gordon -- Aunt Nesbit's loss -- Mr. Jekyl's opinions -- Milly's story -- Uncle John -- Dread -- The conspirators -- Summer talk at Canema -- Tiff's preparations -- The worshippers -- The camp-meeting -- II: Life in the swamps -- More summer talk -- Milly's return -- The trial -- Magnolia grove -- The troubadour -- Tiff's garden -- The warning -- The morning star -- The legal decision -- The cloud bursts -- The voice in the wilderness -- The evening star -- The tie breaks -- The purpose -- The new mother -- The flight into Egypt -- The clerical conference -- The result -- The slave's argument -- The desert -- Jegar Sahadutha -- Frank Russel's opinion -- Tom Gordon's plans -- Lynch law -- More violence -- Engedi -- The slave hunt -- "All over" -- The burial -- The escape -- Lynch law again -- Flight -- Clear shining after rain. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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