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T A L
E S O F T H E P L
U M G R O V E H I L L S
E. P. Dutton & Co. New York City,
New York, 1946. 256 pp.
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Tales of the Plum Grove Hills
was Jesse Stuart’s third book of short stories
to be published. The
book has twenty short
stories, first published between 1938
and 1945, from such prominent magazines as Harper’s, Commonweal, Atlantic
Monthly, and less well-known such
as ones as Story
Magazine and Household. The dust jack
entices the readers with tales “about
death and funeral stories, religious
stories, political stories, and boy
stories, all packed with Kentucky
characters of all sorts and sizes,” all
told with Stuart’s “sure knowledge of
the folklore and speech of the Kentucky
Hills.”
Henry Lee Shattuck, a Boston lawyer,
politician, and philanthropist, was a
close friend of Jesse Stuart. Shattuck
became acquainted with Stuart when he
agreed to sponsor the further education
of some deserving students that had been
recommended by the Kentucky author/poet.
The inscription shows that Shattuck
visited the Stuarts’ in 1946 and
received the autographed book as a memento of that
occasion.
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