A Cathedral Singer - Lane Allen, James

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Résumé :
A quiet hymn of place, A Cathedral Singer returns to life with a crisp, modern energy that honours its long faith and deep memory. A gospel of small-town virtue and public virtue, it invites readers to hear a community struggle with faith, family, and the moral currents of a changing Kentucky. This late nineteenth-century gilded age regional fiction weaves together the textures of religious community life, church music culture, and the ethics of daily life in a provincial town. Its quiet drama-where loyalty and social expectation meet personal conscience-offers a precise, human window into early american literature and american regionalist fiction. The result is a work that resonates with both casual readers and serious collectors, prized for its enduring timbre and historical resonance. A Cathedral Singer holds notable literary and historical significance as a keystone of regional literature, capturing the rhythms and moral questions of its era. This edition from Alpha Editions is more than a reprint: it is a library edition readers, collectors edition release, and academic study edition all in one. Restored for today's and future generations, the book emerges as a cultural treasure, a vivid record of late nineteenth century Kentucky life and a portrait of a community shaped by faith, music, and shared memory....