← Edward Payson RoeBarriers Burned Awayby Edward Payson RoeNovel of faith and love tested by destruction in post-Civil War Chicago fireFind on Amazon↗About the authorEdward Payson RoeEdward Payson Roe was a enormously popular religious and domestic novelist whose Barriers Burned Away and many other titles sold in the millions, making him one of the bestselling American authors of the Gilded Age.More by Edward Payson RoeOpening a Chestnut Burr→A Face Illumined→A Knight of the Nineteenth Century→From Jest to Earnest→