The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (Illustrated)

by John Fox Jr

Overview

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, a 1903 Kentucky Civil War novel by John Fox, Jr., is the first volume in the Mountain Trilogy It was serialized in Scribner's Magazine in the summer of 1903, with the book edition being published later that year. The novel tells the rags-to-respectability tale of orphan Chad Buford. It was the first novel to sell a million copies in the U.S. Fox's depiction of black characters was held against it from the 1960s.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160973036
Publisher:	New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903
Publication date:	02/24/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

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.