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T H R
E A T T H A T
R U N S S O
T R U E
Charles Scribner’s Sons., New York City,
New York, 1949. 239 pp.
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The Thread That Runs So True: A
Mountain School-Teacher tells His Story
is the second of Stuart’s
autobiographical works. It draws upon
his challenging and exhilarating
experiences in teaching in the Cane
Creek Elementary School in 1925, in which Cane Creek was recast
as Lonesome Valley.
Dutton turned down the manuscript,
because the editors felt the subject of
schoolteachers would prove to be “flat”
with its readers. The women’s magazine,
The Ladies Home Journal, agreed to
publish portions of the manuscript in
its May 1949 issue (Copy in the Jesse
Stuart Collection). At about the same
time Scribner’s accepted the
manuscript for
publication. The book proved to be one
of Stuart’s most successful
publishing endeavors.
One reviewer wrote that Stuart’s novel
was a “testimony of a teacher at heart,
a man who believes in education’”
(Richardson, Jesse, p. 337). The
N.E.A. praised the book as the “kind
that comes but once in a generation”
(Ibid). The book’s success is is
demonstrated by the fact that it has
been almost continuously in print since
1949. |
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