Project Gutenberg 2010-09-16 Public domain in the USA. 387 Buck, Charles Neville 1879 1957 Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) 1892 1968 Coleman, Ralph Pallen The Tempering E-text prepared by David Garcia, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) "The Tempering" by Charles Neville Buck is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of the rugged Appalachian mountains, the story revolves around Boone Wellver, a young boy grappling with feelings of discontent and longing for adventure, and Victor McCalloway, an enigmatic stranger whose presence stirs Boone's imagination. The book explores themes of conflict, family loyalties, and the struggle between tradition and change within a society marked by deep-seated feuds. At the start of the story, Boone sits on a fence lamenting the monotony of his life in his isolated mountain community, surrounded by remnants of pioneer life. His world changes with the arrival of McCalloway, a well-traveled stranger with an air of romance, who inadvertently draws Boone into a complex web of family feuds as the local politics heat up. The narrative foreshadows the tensions between different families in the area, particularly the Gregories and the Carrs, as Boone witnesses the emotional weight of his relatives’ past and the simmering animosities that threaten to ignite. As the plot unfolds, Boone's yearning for a life beyond his mundane existence collides with the realities of his heritage and the violent inheritances of his kin. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://book.klll.cc/files/33736/33736-h/images/frontis.jpg Reading ease score: 69.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Kentucky -- Fiction Mountain life -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: American Literature 789493 2025-06-13T15:42:03.106011 text/html 798403 2010-09-16T11:39:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 357214 2010-09-16T11:43:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 421676 2025-06-13T15:42:14.757002 application/epub+zip 434598 2025-06-13T15:42:05.661032 application/epub+zip 391569 2025-06-13T15:42:04.160034 application/epub+zip 696227 2025-06-13T15:42:22.143991 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 655105 2025-06-13T15:42:13.756994 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 579657 2022-09-15T11:29:21.630920 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 759518 2025-06-13T15:42:00.974081 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 759149 2010-09-16T11:34:23 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 303260 2010-09-16T11:34:23 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 759156 2010-09-16T11:34:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 303207 2010-09-16T11:34:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21953 2025-06-13T15:42:22.304935 application/rdf+xml 10466 2025-06-13T15:42:04.762013 image/jpeg 3060 2025-06-13T15:42:04.464010 image/jpeg 412735 2025-06-13T15:42:03.180155 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Lundsford, Hugh en.wikipedia en.wikipedia