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Love in a Dry Season
ISBN: 9780679736189 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families, the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses, are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of... Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash betwee...
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65,33 zł |
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Follow Me Down
ISBN: 9780679736172 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original.
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 co...
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69,17 zł |
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Chickamauga: And Other Civil War Stories
ISBN: 9780385311007 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 has chosen for this vivid, moving collection.
These ten stories of the Civil War give us the experience of joining a coachload of whores left on a siding during a battle in Virginia . . .marching into an old man's house to tell him it's about to be burned down . . .or seeing a childhood friend shot down at Chickamauga. The... Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's definin...
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80,70 zł |
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Jordan County
ISBN: 9780679736165 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch...
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County,...
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73,02 zł |
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The Civil War: V3 Red River to Appomattox
ISBN: 9780394746227 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 1120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This final volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic denouement of the war the assassination of President Lincoln.
Features maps throughout. "An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." Walker Percy To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this... This final volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and...
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130,66 zł |
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Shiloh
ISBN: 9780679735427 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes and cowards, Shiloh creates a dramatic mosaic of a critical moment in the making of America, complete to the haze of gunsmoke and the stunned expression in the...
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 th...
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69,17 zł |
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Fredericksburg to Meridian
ISBN: 9780394746210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 988 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War.
Includes maps throughout. "This, then, is narrative history a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." The Washington Post Book World " Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a... Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant...
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130,66 zł |
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963
ISBN: 9780679601128 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote's landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as "an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a single volume. Complete with detailed maps, Stars in Their Courses brilliantly recreates...
A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote's landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote's monumental thr...
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96,08 zł |
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
ISBN: 9780394746234 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 856 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote s epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel.
Includes maps throughout. "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters." Van Allen Bradley,... This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloo...
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115,29 zł |
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September, September
ISBN: 9780679735434 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Two Mississippi gangsters and the younger one's provocative girlfriend kidnap the eight-year-old son of a prominent, black Memphis businessman, thereby occasioning a crisis in all their lives, as the nation itself undergoes its own upheaval.
Two Mississippi gangsters and the younger one's provocative girlfriend kidnap the eight-year-old son of a prominent, black Memphis businessman, thereb...
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57,65 zł |
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The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
ISBN: 9780393317688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Walker Percy, the highly regarded author of The Moviegoer, wrote six novels, two volumes of philosophical writings, and numerous essays. Shelby Foote met with early success as a novelist, but his reputation today rests more upon his massive three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, and his role as commentator in Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War. The correspondence between Percy and Foote traces their...
In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last...
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95,89 zł |
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Conversations with Shelby Foote
ISBN: 9780878053865 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn't also be applied to the writing of history. In his development, the merging of these special talents has made Foote almost unique in the history of American literature, for few other great modern authors have proved to be master storytellers in both fiction and historical narrative.
In Conversations with Shelby Foote, this novelist-historian expresses penetrating and often humorous remarks about major modern writers as well as about the classical writers of fiction, plays,... Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn't also be applied to the writing of his...
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117,02 zł |
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