The Leatherwood God
William Dean Howells
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Fiction, Impostors and imposture -- Fiction, Dylks, Joseph C. -- Fiction, PS, I
Downloads: 338
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Fiction, Impostors and imposture -- Fiction, Dylks, Joseph C. -- Fiction, PS, I
Downloads: 338
William Dean Howells frequently drew on his Midwestern childhood for his fiction. Based on an incident in Ohio that had always fascinated him, The Leatherwood God tells the intriguing tale of how a charlatan named Joseph Dylks, claiming to be a messenger of God (or even God himself), exploited the pious townspeople, split their devout community in two, and then disappeared.
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