The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South by Jr. Thomas Dixon
"The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South" by Thomas Dixon Jr. is a novel published in 1912. Dan Norton, a Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan leader, begins a forbidden relationship with Cleo, a quadroon woman hired as his family's caretaker. Their secret affair produces devastating consequences that spiral through the next generation. Dixon explores themes of miscegenation and racial separation against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South,
culminating in a tragic ending that destroys Norton's entire family. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946 |
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| Illustrator | Cassel, John Harmon, 1872-1961 |
| Title | The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sins_of_the_Father:_A_Romance_of_the_South |
| Credits | E-text prepared by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (www.archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Subject | Newspaper editors -- Fiction |
| Subject | North Carolina -- Fiction |
| Subject | Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Fiction |
| Subject | White supremacy movements -- Fiction |
| Subject | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 36666 |
| Release Date | Jul 8, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 371 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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