![]() ![]() “A fervid story of honest, earnest and successful struggles issuing in a noble and generous character and life. And the story, however silly, has the charm of a fairy tale. Despite its length, the pacing is excellent the dramatic conflicts are reliably thrilling. The author’s didactic purpose intrudes at every turn, sometimes painfully. ![]() The characters are unreal-some of them racial stereotypes, affectionate but hard to bear nonetheless. In many obvious ways, it’s just plain bad. ![]() This novel, serialized in 1863-1864 and published (in two volumes, separately titled Ishmael, or In the Depths and Self-Raised, or From the Depths) in 1876, was, according to a publisher’s note, the author’s favorite. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899), was a popular and prolific American novelist largely ignored by contemporary critics. ![]()
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