In The Clouds
Charles Egbert Craddock, · 1886
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Description
Charles Egbert Craddock's In the Clouds was published by Houghton, Mifflin in 1887, under a copyright of 1886. Craddock was Mary Murfree, as the copyright line owns, and the publisher's list at the front prices her Tennessee books at a dollar twenty-five each. In the Tennessee Mountains and The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains stand in the list with this novel.
Chapter one opens on Thunderhead, the massive peak of the Great Smoky Mountains, shaped like the cumulus cloud it is named for and charged with the portent of the storm. Kindred thunderheads of the air lean on its shoulder and rise away; the earthbound peak cannot soar. Ben Doaks herds cattle on Piomingo Bald, a few miles off, and turns his eyes to it as he comes and goes. He sits for hours on a summit rock, smoking his pipe and watching its changing aspects.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Charles Egbert Craddock, |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1886 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 877 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |