A Mountain Europa

by John Fox Jr.

Overview

A Mountain Europa: a novella of distrust and suspicion, romance and violence in the small coal-mining, mountain town of Jellico, centered in Tennessee, but bordering and spilling over into Kentucky; about 58 miles by road north of Knoxville.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776014705
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	02/04/2022
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

John Fox, Jr., (December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Fox was one of Virginia’s best-selling writers in the first decade of the twentieth century. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. In The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the character Devil Judd Tolliver was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, the sheriff of Wise County, Virginia. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's southern Appalachia, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region.