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Title: 'Way Down East
A Romance of New England Life

Author: Joseph R. Grismer

Release Date: October 28, 2005 [EBook #16959]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Miss Lillian Gish as Anna Moore. D. W. Griffith's
Production. 'Way Down East.]

'WAY DOWN EAST

A ROMANCE OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE

BY

JOSEPH R. GRISMER

Founded on the Very Successful Play of the

Same Title by

LOTTIE BLAIR PARKER

ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES FROM
D. W. GRIFFITH'S MAGNIFICENT
MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION OF THE
ORIGINAL STORY AND STAGE PLAY

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS -------------- NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1900_

_By Joseph R. Grismer_

_'Way Down East_

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. All Hail to the Conquering Hero.

II. The Conquering Hero is Disposed to be Human.

III. Containing Some Reflections and the Entrance
of Mephistopheles.

IV. The Mock Marriage.

V. A Little Glimpse of the Garden of Eden.

VI. The Ways of Desolation.

VII. Mother and Daughter.

VIII. In Days of Waiting.

IX. On the Threshold of Shelter.

X. Anna and Sanderson Again Meet.

XI. Rustic Hospitality.

XII. Kate Brewster Holds Sanderson's Attention.

XIII. The Quality of Mercy.

XIV. The Village Gossip Sniffs Scandal.

XV. David Confesses his Love.

XVI. Alone in the Snow.

XVII. The Night in the Snowstorm.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Miss Lillian Gish as Anna Moore. . . . _Frontispiece_

Martha Perkins and Maria Poole.

Martha Perkins tells the story of Anna Moore's past life.

Lillian Gish and Burr McIntosh.

WAY DOWN EAST

CHAPTER I.

ALL HAIL TO THE CONQUERING HERO.

Methinks I feel this youth's perfections,
With an invisible and subtle stealth,
To creep in at mine eyes.--_Shakespeare_.

It had come at last, the day of days, for the two great American
universities; Harvard and Yale were going to play th