# The Purple Heights

Author: Oemler, Marie Conway, 1879-1932

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12596

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Purple+Heights+Oemler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The tiny brown house cuddling like a wren's nest on the edge of the longest and deepest of the tide-water coves that cut through Riverton had but four rooms in all,--the kitchen tacked to the back porch, after the fashion of South Carolina kitchens, the shed room in which Peter slept, the dining-room which was the general living-room as well, and his mother's room, which opened directly off the dining-room, and in which his mother sat all day and sometimes almost all night at her sewing-machine. When Peter tired of lying on his tummy on the dining-room floor, trying to draw things on a bit of slate or paper, he liked to turn his head and watch the cloth moving swiftly under the jigging ne...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-purple-heights-12596/chapters/2/index.md)