Originally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, Swallow Barn, John Pendleton Kennedy's novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, was described by its author as... Læs mere
Tina Modotti, known to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist... Læs mere
From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. A... Læs mere
One of the few studies of its kind, this political history of the Louisiana penal system from its origin to the near-present... Læs mere
The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length... Læs mere
Until recently most discussions of William Faulkner have centred exclusively on his novels. Yet no chronicle of Faulkner's Growth as a literary... Læs mere
Offers a history of the Confederate guerrillas who, under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson, plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theatre of the Civil War.
In Self-Interviews, James Dickey speaks thoughtfully and with candour of his life as a poet. He recalls how poetry came to be his career, tracing its growing importance in his life from... Læs mere
James Dickey's creativity as a poet is well known. But there have been few opportunities for his readers to become familiar with the thoughts and perceptions that lie... Læs mere
Tells of life in the hills of Appalachia some fifty years ago, a primal world of craggy hills and tangled forests where good and evil, charity and malice exist in their purest... Læs mere