The Foolish Virgin

A New York stenographer of romantic notions marries a handsome stranger against every warning and finds out who he is afterwards, in a cabin in the Carolina mountains. Dixon was a lawyer and Baptist minister whose novel The Clansman glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Griffith's The Birth of a Nation — a fact the reader should have in hand. This 1915 book is a melodrama of marriage and drugs, and the same certainties are underneath it.