Sowing and Reaping

Author(s): Frances E. W. Harper

Genre(s): Family Life, Religious Fiction, Romance

Narrators: Jim Locke

Number of Chapters: 16

Length: 02 hours and 39 minutes

Language: English

This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and uses her writings for didactic purposes. Here she contrast two couples, one, Belle and Paul, who do not drink and whose lives are happier and more productive, and the other, Jeanette and Charles, who lives are destroyed by the demon rum. (N.B. There are some missing portions of the text)