The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky: And Other Kentucky Articles

by James Lane Allen

This illustrated volume was published in 1907.

From the book's
The articles herein reprinted from Harper 's
and The Century magazines represent work
done at intervals during the period that the
author was writing the tales already published
under the title of ' Flute and Violin'.

It was his plan that with each descriptive
article should go a short story dealing with the
same subject, and this plan was in part wrought
out. Thus, with the article entitled " Uncle
Tom at Home " goes the tale entitled " Two
Gentlemen of Kentucky"; and with the article
entitled " A Home of the Silent Brotherhood "
goes the tale entitled "The White Cowl." In
the same way, there were to be short stories
severally dealing with the other subjects em-
braced in this volume. But having in part
wrought out this plan, the author has let it
rest not finally, perhaps, but because in the
mean time he has found himself engaged with
other themes.

J. L. A.
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The Blue-Grass Region
Uncle Tom at Home
County Court Day in Kentucky
Kentucky Fairs
A Home of the Silent Brotherhood
Homesteads of the Blue-Grass
Through Cumberland Gap on Horseback
Mountain Passes of the Cumberland

358 pages, Kindle Edition

About the author

James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."