The cover page is adapted from An Alcove in the Art Students’ League, a painting completed in 1888 by Charles Courtney Curran. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Courtney_Curranwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Barriers Burned Away
Capítulos (52)
- Dedication 0:00
- Preface to the First Edition 0:07
- I: Love Unknown 1:23
- II: Love Known 20:19
- III: Launched 34:55
- IV: Cold Water 50:00
- V: A Hornet’s Nest 1:03:21
- VI: “Starve Then!” 1:14:08
- VII: A Good Samaritan 1:26:55
- VIII: Yahcob Bunk 1:40:44
- IX: Land at Last 1:55:11
- X: The New Broom 2:09:04
- XI: Too Much Alike 2:22:41
- XII: Blue Blood 2:36:03
- XIII: Very Cold 3:00:25
- XIV: She Speaks to Him 3:10:22
- XV: Promoted 3:17:29
- XVI: Just in Time 3:30:29
- XVII: Rescued 3:48:08
- XVIII: Miss Ludolph Makes a Discovery 4:02:06
- XIX: What Is the Matter with Him? 4:17:44
- XX: Is He a Gentleman? 4:33:34
- XXI: Christine’s Idea of Christians 4:50:03
- XXII: Equal to an Emergency 5:13:47
- XXIII: The Revelation 5:30:27
- XXIV: Night Thoughts 5:50:15
- XXV: Darkness 6:08:11
- XXVI: Miss Ludolph Commits a Theft 6:35:10
- XXVII: A Miserable Triumph 6:54:32
- XXVIII: Life Without Love 7:17:32
- XXIX: Dennis’s Love Put to Practical Use 7:42:00
- XXX: The Two Heights 8:16:57
- XXXI: Beguiled 8:37:58
- XXXII: Bitter Disappointment 8:56:20
- XXXIII: The Two Pictures 9:21:52
- XXXIV: Regret 9:48:33
- XXXV: Remorse 10:18:29
- XXXVI: An Apparition 10:41:08
- XXXVII: If He Knew! 11:07:23
- XXXVIII: The Gates Open 11:31:02
- XXXIX: Susie Winthrop Appears Again 11:57:34
- XL: Suggestive Pictures and a Prize 12:15:11
- XLI: Fire! Fire! 12:26:41
- XLII: Baron Ludolph Learns the Truth 12:42:08
- XLIII: “Christine, Awake! For Your Life!” 12:57:13
- XLIV: On the Beach 13:22:33
- XLV: “Prayer Is Mighty”—Christine a Christian 13:50:09
- XLVI: Christine’s Grave 14:12:53
- XLVII: Susie Winthrop 14:28:46
- XLVIII: Doctor Arten Struck by Lightning 14:45:06
- XLIX: Bill Cronk’s Toast 15:05:49
- L: Every Barrier Burned Away 15:27:01
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Dennis Fleet is a hard-working and pious young Christian man who’s come to the big city of Chicago in order to earn money for his poor family. As he braves his first icy winter, he quickly moves up the rungs of business until he finds himself working for the prosperous art dealer Mr. Ludolph. Ludolph’s beautiful daughter Christine quickly catches Dennis’s eye—but much to his chagrin, she’s a non-believer.
Roe, a Presbyterian minister from New York, was inspired to write Barriers Burned Away after news of the Great Chicago Fire spurred him to visit the remains of the city. He set the book against the backdrop of the encroaching fire, making the novel a fascinating portrait of an era of Chicago that was literally burned to cinders. The book went on to become the bestselling book of 1872, and with its high moral air and sermon-like prose played no small part in breaking down the prejudice against fiction novels that was common in Christian communities of the day.