In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. Reader's Guide included. Re ...
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After 30 years and with three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, <I>The Killer Angels</I>, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published.<p>July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robe ...
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,<i> </i>reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, G ...
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When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.
In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the r ...
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A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life. Reprint.
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantlyplotted, and peopled with a cast ...
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A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the novel based on the true story of an abortive slave revellion in 1831 gives an account of a noble man's moral decline, and is accompanied by a new afterword by the author.