Project Gutenberg 2025-03-21 Public domain in the USA. 176 Craddock, Charles Egbert 1850 1922 Dembry, R. Emmett Murfree, Mary Noailles 07031839 His vanished star $aBoston :$bHoughton, Mifflin and Company, $c1894. Peter Becker, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "His Vanished Star" by Charles Egbert Craddock is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in the American South, the story revolves around the conflict between Kenneth Kenniston, a city-bred architect with ambitious development plans, and the rural Tems family who reside on the land he seeks to transform. The book likely explores themes of progress versus tradition, the clash of cultures, and the complexities of rural mountain life through the interactions of Kenniston, the Tems family, and the people of the surrounding community. The opening of the novel introduces Kenneth Kenniston as he surveys his large but sparsely valued mountainside property, envisioning a grand hotel that will attract summer visitors yet encountering practical and interpersonal obstacles. His chief concern is the presence of the Tems family, especially the patriarch "Cap'n Lucy" Tems, whose cabin lies in the middle of Kenniston’s planned development and who stubbornly refuses to move despite offers. Scenes inside the Tems household reveal a family marked by strong personalities and deep connection to the land. As night falls, other local characters, including the enigmatic Lorenzo Taft and a covert group of moonshiners, are introduced, demonstrating the region's insular, self-sufficient society and the potential for simmering conflict over land and change. Tensions arise between commercial progress, the defense of home and autonomy, and the hidden worlds that operate beneath the surface of rural mountain life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/hisvanishedstar00cradiala 20201205072350craddock 1894 us Reading ease score: 65.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Alcohol trafficking -- Fiction Mountain life -- Tennessee -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 607945 2025-09-30T04:36:40.192089 text/html 583014 2025-03-21T12:23:30 text/html 513256 2025-09-30T04:36:46.840040 application/epub+zip 512872 2025-09-30T04:36:41.616067 application/epub+zip 512871 2025-09-30T04:36:40.799131 application/epub+zip 1387531 2025-09-30T04:36:51.295069 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1358857 2025-09-30T04:36:46.266152 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 588170 2025-09-30T04:36:39.547169 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 568283 2025-03-21T12:23:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16466 2025-09-30T04:36:51.425063 application/rdf+xml 20684 2025-09-30T04:36:41.100114 image/jpeg 2451 2025-09-30T04:36:40.953080 image/jpeg 1191363 2025-09-30T04:36:40.248162 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 en.wikipedia