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Foundation Stone
Using the history of Alabama and the stories of her pioneering ancestors, Lella Warren created the Whetstone clan who settled Alabama in the 1820s, helped lead it into the prosperity of the 1850s, and fought for it in the War Between the States. The historical background of Foundation Stone is authentic, but, more, it is a compelling story about believable characters. The story of these people—three generations of Whetstones—captures the American pioneering spirit. As an unidentified reviewer described the novel, “Lella Warren’s ‘Foundation Stone’ is the long, well-told chronicle of a family that loved and hoped and struggled in a difficult world, unaware that they symbolized an era and a way of life.” Foundation Stone was published in September 1940 and was on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list September 1940-February 1941, along with Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again.
Alabama Library List (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Alabama Library List Annotations have been provided, carefully bringing out details concerning the contents, scope and character of the books included in the list. Grade numbers have also been appended. With each title are given an order number, the retail price and the library price fixed by the Commission. The latter has been fixed in accordance with the provision of the law which says that maximum prices for purchase shall be indicated. Particulars for making selections, orders, etc., will be found within. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Gulf Stream
This book is at once the story of a "white" mixed-race woman in a "black" world and the story of a "black" mixed-race woman seeking forbidden love in a "white" world. But the story is not a question of white blood or black blood, man's blood or woman's blood. Rather it is the blood of a passion for living, the passion that runs in the blood of those who are capable of loving life itself.
Letters from Alabama
Anyone interested in the rural south in the first half of the 19th century, particularly Alabama, would be fascinated by this book. The comments of an early natualist, steamboat travel, family life, hunting, and his reaction to slavery are priceless. If you were interested enough to read this review you need to read this book.
Ninety Degrees in the Shade
This second reprint edition of a classic work on southern culture will allow a new generation of readers to enjoy Cason's observant, graceful writing.
Devil Make a Third
The story is fictional, but seems to have some basis in fact. For example, Aven is really Dothan, Alabama -- Douglas Bailey's hometown.
Rachel's Children
Rachel's Children, originally published in 1938 by Harper & Brothers, is a powerful story about a woman of immense psychological and spiritual presence attempting to work her way amidst structures of power, property, authority, and genealogy in a world of laws and of other regulations created, interpreted, and administered by men. It is about the particular problems of widowhood, of single parenthood, of solitary ownership and distribution of property, of testamentary intention, of standards of mental competence, of statutory definition and standing in courts of law. It is also, simply enough, a story about a woman's loneliness, aging and impending death, and a mother's love, which is at once creative and destructive. Philip Beidler's introduction places this novel within the scheme of the literature of the 1930s and traces the literary trends that influenced Hassell's writing. He points to Hassell's definitive treatment of matters of agriculture, commerce, law, class and race relations, local manners, and folkways in the regional setting of Northport, Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, in the early part of this century.
90° in the Shade
It never snows -- Shadows of the plantation -- Garlands of straw -- Pulpit and pew -- Politics as a major sport -- Fascism: Southern style -- Black figures in the sun -- The machine's last frontier -- They are not all monsters -- The philosopher's stone.
Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874–1890
Chapter Twelve. The State and Social Welfare -- Chapter Thirteen. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
