Published in 1871, this was Eggleston’s first and most successful novel. Eggleston’s use of authentic regional dialect was highly influential on the subsequent course of American literature. Based on the experiences of Eggleston’s brother George, the novel follows a young schoolmaster in his first year of teaching at a backwoods Indiana school.
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Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) was an American novelist and historian. A pioneering regionalist and realist who is most closely identified with Indiana, his best-known novels include
The Hoosier School-Master (1871),
The End of the World (1872), and
The Circuit Rider (1874). His most notable histories are
Beginners of a Nation (1896) and
Transit of Civilization from England to America (1900).
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