Augusta Jane Evans: 7 books

6 works of Augusta Jane Evans American Southern author (1835-1909) This ebook presents a collection of 6 works of Augusta Jane Evans. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: At the Mercy of Tiberius Beulah Inez Infelice Macaria St. Elmo

St. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold...

The first novel by Augusta Jane Evans, the famed American Southern author, was written when she was only 15. “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo” is a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love story which follows an orphan’s spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith.

Macaria by Augusta Jane Evans Wilson.

A slender girl of twelve years' growth steadied a pail of water on her head, with both dimpled arms thrown up, in ancient classic Caryatides attitude; and, pausing a moment beside the spring, stood fronting the great golden dawn—watching for the first level ray of the coming sun, and chanting the prayer...

RUSSELL AUBREY The town-clock was on the last stroke of twelve, the solitary candle measured but two inches from its socket, and as the summer wind rushed through the half-closed shutters, the melted tallow dripped slowly into the brightly-burnished brazen candlestick. The flickering light fell upon...

The town-clock was on the last stroke of twelve, the solitary candle measured but two inches from its socket, and as the summer wind rushed through the half-closed shutters, the melted tallow dripped slowly into the brightly-burnished brazen candlestick. The flickering light fell upon the pages of a...