The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
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"The Able McLaughlins" by Margaret Wilson is a novel published in 1923. Set in pioneer Iowa during the Civil War era, it follows Wully McLaughlin, a young soldier who returns home to discover his sweetheart Christie has been violated by the community's scoundrel. In a bold act of devotion, Wully marries Christie and claims her child as his own. When her attacker returns, Wully must confront him with vengeance in his heart.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning story captures the struggles and resilience of a Scottish immigrant family on the prairie. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wilson, Margaret, 1882-1973 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Able McLaughlins |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Able_McLaughlins |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project (books.google.com) and generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (www.hathitrust.org/) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Farm life -- Fiction |
| Subject | Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction |
| Subject | Husband and wife -- Fiction |
| Subject | Rape victims -- Fiction |
| Subject | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Fiction |
| Subject | Iowa -- Fiction |
| Subject | Scottish Americans -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 59845 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2019 |
| Last Update | Nov 30, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 421 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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