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Title: A very pleasant historical novel in Virginia
Review: One of the major assets of the novel is that the author is a female writer who gives a specific view of the Southern gentleman before and during the Civil War. It relates the education of a young boy, brought up as an aristocrat in the best Virginian tradition who grows up and becomes a real man through the ordeal of the war, the friendship of a poor white and the love of a woman. It's beautifully written, especially when dealing with nature in Virginia. Of course, the point of view is sympathetic with the Southern cause but critical of slavery.Ellen Glasgow is a major Southern writer of the beginning of the 20th century.
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