Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty - Couverture souple

De Forest, J W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434495299 ISBN 13 : 9781434495297

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2007

Synopsis

The memoirs of Dorothea von Biron (1793-1862), Princess of Courland and Duchess of Dino, covering the years 1836-1840. Edited, with notes and biographical index by Dorothea's granddaughter Marie de Castellane, Princess of Radziwill.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

More panoramic in scope and more realistic in its details than Crane's Red Badge of Courage, this is one of the first and best novels ever written about the American Civil War

Drawing on his own combat experience with the Union forces, John W. De Forest crafted a war novel like nothing before it in the annals of American literature. His first-hand knowledge of "the wilderness of death" made its way on to the pages of his riveting novel with devastating effect. Whether depicting the tedium before combat, the unspoken horror of battle, or the grisly butchery of the field hospital, De Forest broke new ground, anticipating the realistic war writings of Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien.

A commercial failure in its own day, De Forest's story was praised by Henry James and William Dean Howells, who, comparing it favorably to  War and Peace, acclaimed the book "one of the best American novels ever written."

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Biographie de l'auteur

Gary Scharnhorst is editor of American Literary Realism and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434495299
• ISBN 13: 9781434495297
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 488
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible