Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances
1891
Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances
1891
The title story introduces Reverend James Moore, a gentle parson in post-Civil War Kentucky whose only companion is a magic flute. Each night, he plays to ease his solitary soul, until something happens that silences him forever. Allen weaves romance, loss, and the strange solace of music through these Kentucky tales, capturing a people and landscape in the aftermath of war. His dialect and eye for the particular eccentric preachers, forbidden loves, the weight of tradition make these stories feel unearthed rather than invented. This is regional literature at its most humane: small lives rendered with tenderness and an understanding that the heart's mysteries matter as much as history's. For readers who savor quiet, layered fiction that rewards patience.
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“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.””
— James Lane Allen
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