Aftermath

by James Lane Allen

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1906. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 184 Aftermath; part second of "A Kentucky cardinal," by James Lane Allen 1906 James Lane Allen

184 pages, Leather Bound

First published June 1, 2004

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."

Reviews

[Humphrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aftermath is a lovely companion to Kentucky Cardinal, and it follows out an interesting course surprisingly uncommon in 19th century literature: what happens after the romantic climax? The protagonists work to sustain their love and struggle to fit their own independent, disparate lives (particularly the narrator's life of solitude and nature) into one married life. But the text then traces a second aftermath: the narrator's gradual return to something more like his earlier life and his adjustment to life after the loss of Georgiana. If Aftermath's best isn't as good as the first 2/3rds of Kentucky Cardinal, I think it's generally better than the final third of Kentucky Cardinal. Definitely worth reading both.