The complete online text of The American Baron by James De Mille.

Working at night and very fast, James De Mille wrote over twenty popular novels--"potboilers"--between 1861 and 1877. By day, he was the respected and respectable professor of rhetoric and history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who taught his classes...

James De Mille was one of the most successful and prolific nineteenth-century Canadian writers of popular fiction during his relatively short writing career. He is best remembered for A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), an apparently...

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