We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $82,148,875.71 | Books Available: 672,356 | Members Online: 207

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - Beloved Invader

Beloved Invader
Author: Price, Eugenia

Is man merely punished by human tragedy? Or is there a redemptive use for it in the universe? The Beloved Invader is a true story, using the real names of warmhearted, often confused, grief-scarred people who lived out the answer to these profound questions at the close of the 19th century. Its locale is enchanting St. Simons Island, off the ... more »coast of Georgia. There Anson Greene Phelps Dodge, Jr., the wealthy, impetuous grandson of William E. Dodge, one of the North's most distinguished business pioneers, found his own identity and in the finding, "invaded" the poverty and destruction of the Civil War torn South with a dream. A dream that built something lasting and beautiful out of the debris of violent change. Anson Dodge came to St. Simons in 1879 at 19 to visit his father who managed the Dodge lumber interests on the island. He found what he feared he would find--his father unchanged with the years, charming, cruel, selfish; but from this heartbreaking encounter, his personal discovery began: a continuing discovery that ended only with his death on the island in 1898. All of the island folk did not accept this impulsive young man with his unmistakable Yankee drive. Some tried to "drive him back up North where he belonged." Others almost worshipped him. Between the two extremes he stood alone, longing just to be "one of them." He became an Episcopal minister in order to serve the war-shattered little church he rebuilt in memory of the woman he loved as few men love, and spent himself and his fortune helping the remaining plantation owners and their ex-slaves. A minister's conflicts are the same as those of other men, especially in the dimension of love--in Anson's case, whole, perfect love which had to be suddenly relinquished. And he, too, demanded explanations from God. As everyone must, Anson Dodge learned there are no explanations: rather, that there can be a slow, steady redemption, so that no even grief ever needs to be wasted.... When you have finished the Beloved Invader, you may find yourself unwilling to be separated from these people, wanting to go in search of them and the island they loved. You can find their graves in the hushed sun and shadows of the churchyard at Christ Church Federica. Anson Dodge is there, Ellen is there. So are Rebecca Dodge, Anna and little Anson--and the Goulds, the Postells, the Kings, the Taylors and the Stevenses. You will find them all, and you can talk to their living descendants who, like you, will never be able to forget the "beloved invader" from the North, who changed their island with a creative, but utterly human love.

ISBN: 340482
Publication Date: 1965
Pages: 284
Rating:

Currently 4.5/5 Stars.

4.5 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Write a Review

Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction

Back to the Top ↑

Search - Beloved Invader

Loading...