Beyond The Sunset
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Description
Beyond the Sunset is a frontier novel by Howden Smith, author of The Doom Trail, published by Brentano's in 1923. The narrator is a Jacobite exile whose estates were forfeited for loyalty to the Pretender. In New York he found a wife, Marjory, and a fortune in trade, and settled as sedately as any Dutch burgher.
The first chapter is called I Am Saved from Myself, and it opens in grief. A fever brought north by a Portuguese snow ship killed Marjory within two years of their happiness, and the narrator sits bowed at his counting-room desk while spring sings outside. The contents promise the remedy: a wilderness trail west, scalp-hunters, and the crossing of the great river. The novel is a first-person frontier romance in the old confessional manner.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 499 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |