The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.
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It is doubtful that any other author has so accurately touched the keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of the North. -- Independent
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Owen Wister (1860-1938), a native of Philadelphia with Southern ancestry, attended Harvard University and practiced law in his native city. An author of short fiction as well as novels, his best-known work is The Virginian.
Owen Wister (1860-1938), a native of Philadelphia with Southern ancestry, attended Harvard University and practiced law in his native city. An author of short fiction as well as novels, his best-known work is The Virginian.
Owen Wister (1860-1938), a native of Philadelphia with Southern ancestry, attended Harvard University and practiced law in his native city. An author of short fiction as well as novels, his best-known work is The Virginian.
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Lady Baltimore Lives On,
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If you are a Southerner with South Carolina roots, you will find this book an enlightening, amazing, amusing,sometimes astounding look into your ancestors's world in the early 1900's.Owen Wister explained much to me about southerners who weren't the rednecks we are so often considered to be.I found Wister's descriptions vivid. They put me there on the streets of King's Point, in the churchyard cemetery with the hero and in his friend,with him at the boarding house dinner table, and with him on the bottom of a boat moored on a woodland stream. I could all but feel the humidity and smell the smells he so evokes in all his scenes.His many tongue in cheek observations gave me belly laughs as I recalled people from long ago.
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Shed a tear for the Lost Cause,
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This review is from: Lady Baltimore (Southern Classics Series) (Paperback)
Many times good writing can overcome poor personal judgments and points of view. Such is the case with this novel. Set in the early 1900s in South Carolina, it is basically a long discussion between a Northern visitor and several different Southerners. Wister shows much sympathy for the plight of the upper echelon white Southerners who felt they lost a complete way of life after the Civil War. This is where Wister's lousy viewpoint comes in: it's really hard to stomach all the ballyhooing over Southern honor and Romanticism. Only Wister's talent as a writer allows him to get away with it.
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LIKE Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Kings Port, Aunt Carola, Miss Rieppe, Miss Josephine, New York, Eliza La Heu, Hortense Rieppe, Miss La Heu, Beverly Rodgers, Miss Eliza, South Carolina, General Rieppe, High Walk, Worship Street, Aunt Josephine, Aunt Eliza, Woman's Exchange, Miss Beaufain, Royal Street, Daughters of Dixie, Miss Hortense, South Place, Wall Street, Selected Salic Scions, Court Street New!
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LIKE Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
male honeymooner, steel wasp, moral elegance, severe lady, girl behind the counter, handsome thing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kings Port, Aunt Carola, Miss Rieppe, Miss Josephine, New York, Eliza La Heu, Hortense Rieppe, Miss La Heu, Beverly Rodgers, Miss Eliza, South Carolina, General Rieppe, High Walk, Worship Street, Aunt Josephine, Aunt Eliza, Woman's Exchange, Miss Beaufain, Royal Street, Daughters of Dixie, Miss Hortense, South Place, Wall Street, Selected Salic Scions, Court Street New!
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- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 105
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on page 105
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on page 105
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 105
- The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Oxford World's Classics) by Owen Wister on 6 pages
- A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston by Stephanie E. Yuhl on 5 pages
- New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (Studies in Religion) by Don Harrison Doyle on 4 pages
- Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire by Sarah Watts on 4 pages
- Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature by Anne Goldman on page 41, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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