The Late Mrs. Null
Frank R. Stockton
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Description
Frank R. Stockton published his comic novel in 1886. Chapter one describes Midbranch, a Virginia family mansion set in a farm of nine hundred fifty acres. Its wide front gate almost never opens, since carriage wheels would ruin lawn grass said to date from statehood days.
Visitors instead climb broad wooden steps over the fence in front of the porch. Wood carts reach the back by a roundabout track among trees and deep chip soil. Stockton lingers on these odd arrangements with dry patience, letting a house entrance explain a family proud of habit and slow to change.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Frank R. Stockton |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 589 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |