Elia W. Peattie

The Crime of Micah Rood by Elia W. Peattie is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: In the early part of the last century there lived in eastern Connecticut a man named Micah Rood.
He was a solitary soul, and occupied a low, tumble-down house, in which he had seen his sisters and his brothers, his father and his mother, die. The mice used the bare floors for a play-ground; the swal This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.