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Faith Doctor (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1891, this was Eggleston's final novel, before he turned his hand exclusively to history. Here Eggleston satirizes the wealthy followers of Christian Science and …
Hoosier School-Master (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1871, this was Eggleston's first and most successful novel. Eggleston's use of authentic regional dialect was highly influential on the subsequent course of American …
Roxy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1878, Roxy was one of Eggleston's best selling novels. Its heroine, Roxy Adams, is a religious woman whose faith is sorely tested when her husband embarks on an …
Hoosier School-Boy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1883 juvenile novel, a sequel to Eggleston's first and best-known novel, The Hoosier School-Master, is based on the experiences of Eggleston's brother as a teacher. It offers …
End of the World (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1872, this novel sets a love story amidst the utopian Millerite sect in pioneer Indiana with its belief in a coming apocalypse "e;sometime between March 21, 1843 …
Graysons (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1881, this historical romance set in frontier Illinois features a young Abraham Lincoln as a character and is based on the future president's successful defense of an …
Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This juvenile history, published in 1878, and cowritten by Eggleston's daughter, Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, is a dramatic rendition of the life of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh …
Duffels (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1893, this collection of eleven short stories includes "e;Sister Tabea,"e; "e;The Gunpowder Plot,"e; "e;The Story of a Valentine,"e; …
Circuit Rider (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Based on the authors own life as well as the life of Ohio itinerant preacher Jacob Young, this 1874 novel of a frontier Methodist minister and Bible agent presents a rollicking yet …
Mystery of Metropolisville (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1873 novel, set in a fictional Minnesota town during a real-estate bubble, describes the carving up of the American frontier by the sharp speculators who helped to usher in …