Bylow Hill (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><p>This 1902 novel, set in a small New England town in the late nineteenth century, focuses on two families, the Byingtons and the Winslows. The families younger generations must face the challenges of a new century while navigating the currents of love and loss. </p></div>

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<div><p><b>George Washington Cable</b> (1844-1925), after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, wrote about his native Louisiana in realist novels. His anti-racist and pro-civil rights attitudes eventually brought him to the north. Novels such as<i>Old Creole Days</i>,<i>The Grandissimes</i>, and<i>Madame Delphine</i> are often cited as forerunners of the work of William Faulkner.</p></div>

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