Set at the time of the western migration from Piedmont Virginia to her native Kentucky, Ms. Roberts's novel recounts the heroism of the Kentucky pioneer. Roberts was that rare thing, a true artist.. She was one of the indispensables.-Robert Penn Warren. Southern Classics Series.

History of the Tennessee Valley from the Civil War to the TVA.

Life of the South's greatest cavalry leader whose exploits still astonish.

Chronicle of Southern history encapsulated by that of the famous writer's Tennessee family.

Grim novel of the Civil War featuring Forrest's cavalry.

Young's novel of war coming to the Natchez region of Mississippi has long been considered one of the best of Civil War novels. If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life.-New York Times. Southern Classics Series.

Novel of Post-Civil War Charleston life, by author of Virginian.

Warren's first novel, set during the tobacco wars that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren's innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. Southern Classics Series.

A Southerner's attempt to restore an antique way of life ends in murder.

Portrays the life of the nineteenth-century American abolitionist.