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“As the straight-man narrator, observer, and regular butt of hundreds of hilarious trials and mishaps, Major Yeates never ceases to be surprised, is usually not amused, and can’t stop himself from loving his Irish neighbors.”—500 Great Books by Women.
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The Confederate cavalrymen, with their chivalric manners and death-defying exploits, were the last of their kind to take part in large-scale military conflict. Included... Læs mere
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O’Sullivan’s memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. “The only book I have ever reviewed which... Læs mere
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A stirring account of von Borcke’s service in the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia. “Von Borcke’s book is one that no student of Confederate history will forget.”—Douglas Southall Freeman.
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The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. “No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby.”—Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.
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Written early in Tate’s career, this study of the Confederacy’s fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.
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This highly literate account by the son of President Zachary Taylor follows the author's Confederate commands in all three major... Læs mere
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One of the most remarkable novels every written by an American woman about women. First published in 1943, the story follows a woman’s flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Southern Classics Series.
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Warren’s first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King's Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal led to the greater violence of the Civil War. Southern Classics Series.
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First novel by a modern master of Southern fiction, this tale is reminiscent of Hardy’s Return of the Native—set in rural twentieth-century Tennessee. Southern Classics Series.
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Warren’s first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren’s innocent idealists whose delusions... Læs mere
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The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.