| Titre : | Know nothing : Book III of the Beulah Quintet | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Mary Lee Settle | | Mention d'édition : | 1st Scribner signature ed. | | Editeur : | New York : Scribner | | Année de publication : | 19881960 | | Importance : | 334 p. | | Format : | 21 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-684-18847-8 | | Mots-clés : | Historical Fiction Literature | | Index. décimale : | 813 Fiction-théâtre et roman | | Résumé : | Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, Know Nothing tells the tragic tale of Peregrine Catlett and his second son, Johnny. The year 1837 brings a host of perils to their verdant West Virginia valley. Amid financial panic, debate over the abolition of slavery, and mounting tension between North and South, Peregrine considers freeing his slaves but believes that, with his children scattered, his only hope of retaining his plantation rests on the use of slave labor.
Johnny returns to this father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. He soon loses sight of his reasons for joining the Confederate forces and ends up fighting both family and friends with disastrous results. |
Know nothing : Book III of the Beulah Quintet [texte imprimé] / Mary Lee Settle . - 1st Scribner signature ed. . - New York : Scribner, 19881960 . - 334 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN : 978-0-684-18847-8 | Mots-clés : | Historical Fiction Literature | | Index. décimale : | 813 Fiction-théâtre et roman | | Résumé : | Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, Know Nothing tells the tragic tale of Peregrine Catlett and his second son, Johnny. The year 1837 brings a host of perils to their verdant West Virginia valley. Amid financial panic, debate over the abolition of slavery, and mounting tension between North and South, Peregrine considers freeing his slaves but believes that, with his children scattered, his only hope of retaining his plantation rests on the use of slave labor.
Johnny returns to this father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. He soon loses sight of his reasons for joining the Confederate forces and ends up fighting both family and friends with disastrous results. |
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