John Fox Jr. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia in 1908, and the book quickly became one of America's favorites. It has all the elements of a good romance -- a superior but natural heroine, a hero...
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O'Neill flees Ireland for the Cape of Good Hope and the hell of its Irish Town. He is soon entangled in the Cape Town underworld of the early 19th Century - and the strings of its shadowy crime boss, the Puppeteer.......
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Christmas Eve on Lonesome will transport you back to a simpler time Settle in with this collection of short stories from renowned Kentucky author John Fox Jr. Whether you're a homesick Southerner who desperately needs a dose of way-back-when nost...
A profound, almost primal adoration for his native state of Kentucky resonates throughout the novels and stories of acclaimed writer John Fox Jr. In the late 1800s, the journalist traveled to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American war for Harper's Weekly...
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Though much of John Fox Jr.'s body of work can be described as historical fiction, the esteemed author takes a slightly different approach in Erskine Dale, Pioneer. The protagonist is something of an everyman, a fictionalized amalgamation of the stal...
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Best known for sweeping historical novels about his homeland in the Southern United States, John Fox Jr. was interested in exploring the inner and outer landscape of the people who made the region unique. The engaging collection Hell-fer-Sartain and ...
While away a pleasant afternoon in the enchanting landscape author John Fox Jr. conjures in the stories of In Happy Valley. Though tinged with tragedy along the way, the idyllic world of a bygone era and the cast of one-of-a-kind characters who popul...
The writing of John Fox, Jr. has had profound significance in the way America studies turn-of-the-century Appalachian mountain life, lending fondness for its customs, respect for its survival, and deep regard for its environmental and psychological a...
War correspondent and Kentucky native John Fox Jr. spent years traveling the globe and reporting on far-flung foreign conflicts before returning his focus to fiction and chronicling his native region. The Last Stetson tells the story of a decades-lon...
Clayton was attending a German university because his father had recognized his scientific aspirations and encouraged his curiosity of the arts. But as Clayton groomed his talents his family encountered an unexpected financial disturbance that compel...