The Emblems of Fidelity (Esprios Classics)

James Lane Allen (December 21 1849 - February 18 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late 19th-century local color era when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as Kentucky's first important novelist.