# Poor White: A Novel

Author: Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7414

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poor+White%3A+A+Novel+Anderson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the town--called in derision by river men “Mudcat Landing”--was almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow, shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on which they lived. They were chronically discouraged, and the merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The merchants, who ran their stores--...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-white-a-novel-7414/chapters/19/index.md)