Purple Heights

First published in 1920, Marie Conway Oemler's "The Purple Heights" is the story of the life of Peter Champneys, a fatherless boy, with black hair and hazel eyes living with his mother in a small house in South Carolina. Shy with children of his own age, Peter makes friends of unlikely creatures: a small gray cat named Martin Luther who presents him with a litter of kittens, or a Red Admiral butterfly, which Peter believes is a fairy, or at the very least a good omen. And so it is -- as Peter grows to manhood he continues to pursue the Red Admiral and finds his life's vocation, painting, and his love, Anne.Oemler, Marie is the author of 'Purple Heights ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781598180626 and ISBN 1598180622.