Complete Psychological Mystery of Constance Fenimore Woolson

Contents

Solomon (1873)

Castle Nowhere (1875)

Rodman the Keeper (1880)

Anne (1882)

For the Major (1883)

East Angels (1884)

Jupiter Lights (1889)

The Front Yard and other Italian stories (1894)

Horace Chase (1894)

Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu (1895)

The Old Stone House (1873)

Dorothy and other Italian Stories (1896)


East Angels-

Set in Gracias a Dios, a little town lying half asleep on the southern coast of the United States under a sky of almost changeless blue. The heroine, Edgarda Thorne, the child of a New England mother but with Spanish blood in her veins who has lived all her life in the South, is just ripening into womanhood when the story opens. The plot is concerned chiefly with her love affairs, men of totally different types being thus brought into juxtaposition. Like the author's other novels, "East Angels" lacks the romantic and ideal elements, but it is strong in the delineation of everyday character and incident. It is superfluous to say that the workmanship is excellent and the interest well sustained.

Jupiter Lights-

Cicely Abercrombie, a little devil of a Southern girl, married John Bruce, a Northern soldier. He was madly in love with the girl, and carried her by storm after a brief siege. They had a child, and then Bruce died. In a few months the widow herself fell madly in love with a handsome, gay Southerner, Ferdinand Morrison, and married him with a willful perversity which was not in the least weakened when it turned out that Ferdie, as everybody in the book feels bound to call him, had an hereditary tendency to a mixture of insanity and delirium tremens. In one of his moments of aberration Ferdie struck Cicely, and slung little Jack out of his crib, breaking his arm. He then disappeared to the convenient remoteness of Valparaiso, to wait till the novelist wanted him for dark and dreadful purposes.

Rodman the Keeper-

THE sketches included in this volume were written during a residence in the South, which has embraced the greater part of the past six years. As far as they go they record real impressions; but they can never give the inward charm of that beautiful land which the writer has learned to love, and from which she now severs herself with true regret.

Rodman the Keeper 

Sister St. Luke 

Miss Elisabetha 

Old Gardiston 

The South Devil 

In the Cotton Country 

Felipa 

"Bro." 

King David 

Up in the Blue Ridge