Barriers Burned Away
by Edward Payson Roe
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Roe, a Presbyterian minister living in New York after the Civil War, went to Chicago and was caught up in the great fire. This inspired him to write this romantic novel. Dennis Fleet is in love with Christine. He wants her for his wife, but more important he wants her soul to turn to Christianity. When Christine's father is killed in the fire and her European suitor Baron Ludolph instead of helping saves valuable papers, Christine realizes the noble and moral character of Dennis.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1872
- Important events
- Great Chicago Fire (1871)
- Dedication
- This book is reverently dedicated to the memory of my mother
- First words
- He had hardly left his humble friends before Mrs. Bruder stopped, put her hand on her heart and cried: "Oh, Ernst! Oh, Gott forgive me! dot I should forget him--your fader's picture. I must go back." .... The woman's eyes wer... (show all)e wild and excited, and she cried, vehemently: "Dot picture saved mine Berthold life--yes, more, more, him brought back his artist soul. Vithout him ve vould all be vorse dan dead. I can no live vidout him. Stay here"; and with the speed of the wind the devoted wife rushed back to the burning street, up the stairs, already crackling and blazing, to where the lovely landscape smiled peacefully in the dreadful glare, with its last rich glow of beauty. She tore it from its fastenings, pressed her lips fervently against it, regained the street, but with dress on fire. She staggered forward a few steps in the hot stifling air and smoke, and then fell upon her burden. Spreading her arms over it, to protect it even in death, the mother's heart went out in agony toward her children.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.4 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Later 19th Century 1861-1900
- LCC
- PZ3 .R62 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 14
