02892cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000410012624500270016726400510019430000470024533600260029233700260031833800360034450000310038050801910041152015300060253400660213265300420219865300170224065300220225765300310227965300350231065300270234570000320237285600590240485600430246376784UtSlPG20260610134758.0mcr n260607r20251908utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a08029332  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCraddock, Charles Egbert,d1850-192214aThe fair Mississippian 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-08-31  aRichard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"The fair Mississippian" by Charles Egbert Craddock is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set on an isolated Mississippi River plantation, it follows Edward Desmond, a brilliant but newly impoverished scholar who becomes tutor to the wealthy widow Honoria Faurie’s three sons. The story promises class friction, wounded pride, and a possible attraction between tutor and mistress, threaded through with a local “haunting” and the social theatrics of neighboring planters.  The opening of the novel shows Desmond’s fall from promise after his father’s death and his reluctant arrival at Great Oaks, where Mr. Stanlett’s tactless chatter about Honoria’s fortune (tied to widowhood) and a parrot’s mocking song sharpen Desmond’s sense of humiliation. He meets the unexpectedly young and commanding Honoria, then lies awake to hear furtive footsteps on the stairs; Reginald explains the household’s ghostly legend. At breakfast Honoria’s birthday and Chub’s earnest “trading‑boat” gift reveal the family’s dynamics. Desmond asserts discipline, vetoing a holiday, choosing the library as a schoolroom, and quelling globe‑spinning and sulks; he spars with Reginald over the value of Greek and begins to win a measure of order while spending his nights reading and writing in solitude. As winter wears on, neighbors Colonel and Mrs. Kentopp arrive; Desmond even resists being summoned mid‑lessons, signaling the boundaries he intends to keep. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908  aInheritance and succession -- Fiction  aLove stories  aWidows -- Fiction  aPlantation life -- Fiction  aTutors and tutoring -- Fiction  aMississippi -- Fiction1 aJustice, Martin,d1869-19614 uhttps://archive.org/details/fairmississippia00murfuoft40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76784