AN UNEXPECTED RESULT AND OTHER STORIES .

Published by Dodd, New York, 1883

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Octavo, original decorated mustard cloth stamped in black and brown, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Roe's first collection of short fiction. Collects three stories: "The Unexpected Result," "Christmas Eve in War Times" and "Three Thanksgiving Kisses." These stories were collected in TAKEN ALIVE AND OTHER STORIES (1889). Roe, a clergyman who served as a Union chaplain during the Civil War, took up writing full-time after his novel BARRIERS BURNED AWAY, based on the 1871 Chicago fire, became a bestseller. His attention to moral purpose made popular fiction more palatable to a nation habitually suspicious of it as frivolous if not downright immoral. "His plots, according to Carl Van Doren, were concerned with the 'simultaneous pursuit of wives, fortunes, and salvation.'" - Kunitz and Haycraft, American Authors 1600-1900, p. 659. A nice example of an eclectic late Victorian publisher's binding. BAL 16910. Wright (III) 4622. Hint of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, else a near fine, bright copy. A superior copy of this pretty little book. (#117226). …

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Title
AN UNEXPECTED RESULT AND OTHER STORIES .
Author
Roe, E[dward] P[ayson]
Publisher
Dodd, New York
Publication year
1883
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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Victorian Fiction

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