Samuel: American Allegory
- ISBN-10
- 1463738447
- ISBN-13
- 9781463738440
- Series
- Samuel
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-04
- Author
- Jeremy Zaugg
Description
SAMUEL: AMERICAN ALLEGORY is an allegory of American history from 1492 to World War Two.The book is set in the second half of the eighteenth century and is narrated by Aurora, a young American girl traveling to England for the first time with her mother and her Uncle Samuel, both of whom left England when they were young after a series of family tragedies and feuds. They are returning to attend the deathbed of their older brother in the hope of repairing old wounds.From reading the journals that her mother kept when she was a small girl, and getting to know her cousin, Aurora gradually pieces together the story of how her once rich and influential English family disintegrated and how her mother and uncle came to be in America, where her Uncle Samuel eventually built a new fortune. At the same time she finds herself falling in love with her handsome young cousin.
