Publisher's Synopsis
The Miller of Old Church is a novel written by Ellen Glasgow. Set in the late 19th century, the story takes place in Old Church, a small town in Virginia. The protagonist, Joe Davenport, is a miller who has inherited his family's mill. However, he is not content with his life and yearns for something more. He is torn between his love for his wife, Jennie, and his desire for a more exciting and fulfilling life.As the story unfolds, Joe becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his mundane existence and begins to explore his options. He becomes involved with a group of wealthy and influential men who offer him the opportunity to join their business ventures. However, this decision comes with a price, and Joe soon finds himself caught up in a web of deceit and corruption.Meanwhile, Jennie struggles to come to terms with Joe's changing priorities and the impact it has on their marriage. She is torn between her love for Joe and her own desire for a stable and secure life.The Miller of Old Church is a poignant exploration of the human condition, and the choices we make in life. It is a timeless tale of love, ambition, and the search for meaning in a world that can often be unforgiving. Ellen Glasgow's masterful storytelling and vivid descriptions of life in Old Church make this novel a must-read for anyone interested in American literature.1911. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942. The Miller of Old Church: It was past four o'clock on a sunny October day, when a stranger, who had ridden over the corduroy road between Applegate and Old Church, dismounted near the crossroads before the small public house known to its frequenters as Bottom's Ordinary. Standing where the three roads meet at the old turnpike gate of the county, the square brick building, which had declined through several generations from a chapel into a tavern, had grown at last to resemble the smeared face of a clown under a steeple hat which was worn slightly awry. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
