The Natural SelectionSunstone Press, 2008 - 307 頁 In July of 1925, Sarah Kaufman is finally taking the holiday she deserves. Her court duties in the hands of a competent replacement, she looks forward to a month of relaxation with her cousin Lena, the newest and most progressive member of the English department at Tennessee's Edenville College. Knowing that the South would be even more humid than Toledo, Sarah packed only her lightest clothing. What she did not know, however, was that she also would need the investigative skills she had just barely acquired, the lover she had continuously resisted, and the emotional strength that she thought had been tested enough for one lifetime. Indeed, even before one of hottest summers on record has a chance to make her rethink her vacation plans, Sarah reluctantly agrees to help investigate the mysterious death of one of Lena's most esteemed and, as she discovers, enigmatic colleagues. With the dead professor's own cryptic, Darwinian message as a guide, Sarah travels the short distance to Dayton, Tennessee, where the internationally followed Scopes "Monkey" trial is underway. There, along with the disquieting Mitchell Dobrinkski reporting on the event for the "Blade," she meets the famous journalist H. L. Mencken, who provides her with information that could help unravel the mystery. But the case, and the challenges to Sarah's physical and psychological well-being, have only just begun. What follows is a harrowing and complex path of dead-ends, bigotry and brutality, a journey that shatters her own preconceptions, takes her to the depths of her own desire, and ultimately leads her back to the college where Darwin's controversial theory of evolution startlingly resurfaces in a manner she never could have predicted. Set against the backdrop of what was deemed the "Trial of the Century," this socially and politically relevant blend of fact and fiction includes actual courtroom excerpts and vividly portrays the Scopes trial's central figures: John Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and especially H. L. Mencken. |
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... Scopes , John Thomas - Trials , litigation , etc - Fiction . 4. Tennessee - Fiction . I. Title . PS3618.U765N38 2008 813'.6 - dc22 2008004394 Published in Santa WWW.SUNSTONEPRESS.COM SUNSTONE PRESS / POST OFFICE BOX 2321 / SANTA FE , NM ...
... Scopes , John Thomas - Trials , litigation , etc - Fiction . 4. Tennessee - Fiction . I. Title . PS3618.U765N38 2008 813'.6 - dc22 2008004394 Published in Santa WWW.SUNSTONEPRESS.COM SUNSTONE PRESS / POST OFFICE BOX 2321 / SANTA FE , NM ...
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... asked her to explain what her job entailed , which she did in the simplest of terms : " wills , property and marriage , " she said , not caring to elaborate upon the actual unpredictable and varied scope of her 16 ≪
... asked her to explain what her job entailed , which she did in the simplest of terms : " wills , property and marriage , " she said , not caring to elaborate upon the actual unpredictable and varied scope of her 16 ≪
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Ona Russell. elaborate upon the actual unpredictable and varied scope of her duties under the Honorable O'Brien O'Donnell . " So , what is it you plan to discuss in this class of yours , Mr. Jarvis ? ” she asked , wanting nothing more ...
Ona Russell. elaborate upon the actual unpredictable and varied scope of her duties under the Honorable O'Brien O'Donnell . " So , what is it you plan to discuss in this class of yours , Mr. Jarvis ? ” she asked , wanting nothing more ...
第 47 頁
... Scopes trial was being held , and as everyone knew , the Sun was sending its famed reporter to cover it . Sarah had been made particularly aware of this fact . Mitchell Dobrinski , who had helped her so much with Obee , was covering the ...
... Scopes trial was being held , and as everyone knew , the Sun was sending its famed reporter to cover it . Sarah had been made particularly aware of this fact . Mitchell Dobrinski , who had helped her so much with Obee , was covering the ...
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... Scopes to be the victim . Unbelievable . The whole thing was a scheme , nothing to do with either science or religion . Nevertheless , it had gotten people thinking , a major accomplishment , intentional or not . Perhaps history ...
... Scopes to be the victim . Unbelievable . The whole thing was a scheme , nothing to do with either science or religion . Nevertheless , it had gotten people thinking , a major accomplishment , intentional or not . Perhaps history ...
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第 166 頁 - I believe everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there; some of the Bible is given illustratively. For instance: "Ye are the salt of the earth." I would not insist that man was actually salt, or that he had flesh of salt, but it is used in the sense of salt as saving God's people.
第 268 頁 - ... feeling made a moment's blank pause. Legree stood aghast, and looked at Tom; and there was such a silence, that the tick of the old clock could be heard, measuring, with silent touch, the last moments of mercy and probation to that hardened heart. It was but a moment. There was one hesitating pause, — one irresolute, relenting thrill, — and the spirit of evil came back, with seven-fold vehemence; and Legree, foaming with rage, smote his victim to the ground.
第 283 頁 - What animated him from end to end of his grotesque career was simply ambition — the ambition of a common man to get his hand upon the collar of his superiors, or, failing that, to get his thumb into their eyes.
第 166 頁 - That is my recollection of it. A big fish, and I believe it, and I believe in a God who can make a whale and can make a man and make both do what He pleases.
第 124 頁 - TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetable...
第 131 頁 - He picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world.
第 168 頁 - I will answer it all at once, and I have no objection in the world. I want the world to know that this man, who does not believe in a God, is trying to use a court in Tennessee — Darrow: I object to that! Bryan (cont,): — to slur at it, and while it will require time, I am willing to take it!