This collection of 34 stories by Stuart includes "Youth," the macabre "Sunday Afternoon Hanging" and a tragic tale of adultery and murder, "The Old People." Provides a story-by-story commentary by H. Edward Richardson and a discussion of the origin of many of the stories and some of the characters and incidents on which they are based.

A personal narrative of the author's experiences as a teacher in the mountain region of Kentucky. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Relates the adventures of an orphan named David who lives with his grandmother in the mountains of Kentucky.

A regional love story set in the hills of Tennessee against a backdrop of mystery and racial misunderstanding. Dave, a young lumberjack, falls in love with Deutsia, a Melungeon girl. Her people are shunned by the valley people and the relationship splits the lifetime friendship of Dave and his best friend, Ben.

This collection of 34 stories by Stuart includes "Youth," the macabre "Sunday Afternoon Hanging" and a tragic tale of adultery and murder, "The Old People." Provides a story-by-story commentary by H. Edward Richardson and a discussion of the origin of many of the stories and some of the characters and incidents on which they are based.

Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this study explores how regional writing shapes ways of imagining not only the neighborhood or the province, but also the nation, and ultimately the world. Its key premise is that thinking about place always entails imagining time. It analyzes how concepts crystallize across disciplines and in everyday discourse and proposes ways of revising American literary history and close readings of particular authors' work. It demonstrates, for example, the importance of the figure of the school-teacher and the one-room schoolhouse in local color and subsequent place-focused writing. Such representations embody the contested relation in modernity between localities and the knowledge they produce, and books that carry metropolitan and cosmopolitan learning. The volume discusses fiction from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including works by Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Gaines, Wendell Berry, and Ursula LeGuin as well as romance novels and regional mysteries.