Shelby Foote

• Jul-1976
• / General Fiction
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This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War.  Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops t...

• Jan-1978
• / General Fiction
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In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are ...

• Jul-1978
• / General Fiction
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A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both ...

• Jun-1992
• / General Fiction
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Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock ...

• Jun-1992
• / General Fiction
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Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season descr...

• Oct-1993
• / Historical
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Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, " The Civil War: A Narrative ," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event.Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he h...

• Mar-2000
• / General Fiction
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With the republication of Longer Stories from the Last Decade, the Modern Library has an original three-volume edition of 123 of Chekhov's stories presented in the translations by Constance Garnett. The stories have been selected by the novelist, his...