Jordan’s End (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Plot: Ghost story
- Time of Work: The 1890's
- Setting: Virginia
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Judith Yardly Jordan, Father Peterkin
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Tradition, Doctors, Mental illness, Death or dying, Sick persons, Medicine, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Fate or fatalism
- Locales: Virginia
The Story
As the story opens, the narrator, a young doctor beginning practice in an isolated section of Virginia near the turn of the century, is on his way to Jordan's End, a country estate at some remove from a small town. He has been sent for to examine Alan Jordan, the owner of the place. As he goes along in his horse and buggy, he encounters a fork in the road: One branch of its gives indications of having been well traveled; the other, deeply rutted but covered with grass and overhanging leaves, appears to have been little used. As he ponders which road to take, a voice...
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