Gordon Keith (Classic Reprint), by Thomas Nelson Page
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Excerpt from Gordon KeithGordon Keith was the son of a gentleman. And this fact like the cat the honest miller left to his youngest son, was his only patrimony. As in that ease also, it stood to the possessor in the place of a good many other things. It helped him over many rough places. He carried it, with him as a devoted Romanist wears a sacred scapulary next to the heart.His father, General McDowell Keith of "Elphinstone," was a gentleman of the old kind, a type so old-fashioned that it is hardly accepted these days as having existed. He knew the Past and lived in it; the Present he did not understand, and the Future he did not know. In his latter days, when his son was growing up, after war bad swept like a vast inundation over the land, burying almost everything it had not borne away, General Keith still survived, unchanged, unmoved, unmarred, an antique memorial of the life of which he was a relic. His one standard was that of a gentleman.This idea was what the son inherited from the father along with some other old- fashioned things which he did not know the value of at first, but which be came to understand as he grew older.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Gordon Keith (Classic Reprint), by Thomas Nelson Page- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.17" w x 5.98" l, 1.69 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 580 pages
About the Author Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family s wealthy lineageboth the Nelson and Page families were First Families of VirginiaPage was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page s writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page s best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story Marse Chan. Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable, but completely uncritical. By Frederick J. Woods In this work, Richmond-based author Thomas Nelson Page describes the struggles of a young Southern man, Gordon Keith, whose estate was stripped from him following the Confederacy's defeat. After his father is reduced to being a paid overseer of the crumbling estate, Keith vows to earn enough money to repurchase it from opportunistic Northern carpet-baggers and return it to its former glory.The protagonist does this by harnessing Northern capital in Southern mining ventures, though along the way he is faced with an array of serious personal and professional challenges by unscrupulous materialists within New York elite circles. Primary among the antagonists is Ferdy Wickersham, who would appear to be Page's archetype of the conniving, dishonorable Yankee, who will literally stop at nothing to acquire enough money and status to secure a position within the elite class. The addition of a series of romantic subplots allows Page to also contrast what he depicts as the compromised and debased state of Northern romance and matrimony with his idealistic (and arguably traditional) view of women.While the book is an enjoyable read, Page is clearly unwilling to engage here in any meaningful criticism of Southern civilization. For a more balanced fictional look at late 19th and early 20th century Virginia, the reader would be better off looking to Page's compatriot, Ellen Glasgow, who strove to counter the romanticized Southern idealism of authors such as Page.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A CLASSIC IF EVER THERE WAS! By Shannon W. Pritchard This wonderful story is a reminder of a time before honor and virtue were replaced by all that is crude and vulgar in modern times.
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