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Henry Poggioli, a psychologist and amateur detective who often solved the case just a little too late."--BOOK JACKET.
Previously uncollected detective stories by a Pultizer Prize winner.
First in the Vaiden trilogy, The Forge follows the story of Miltiades Vaiden, a Civil War veteran who has returned to his southern home in the hopes of rebuilding and eventually rising into the ranks of the middle class.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL! In Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin tells the powerful story of Mary, a defiant woman in a rural Gullah community who chooses to live on her own terms. After being abandoned by her husband, Mary embraces a life that challenges traditional values, navigating love, motherhood, and social expectations. Set against the backdrop of South Carolina's Lowcountry, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel offers a vivid and empathetic portrayal of African-American culture, resilience, and identity during the early 20th century. "Peterkin has a talent which is not only great but unique at the moment in America." -- Louis Bromfield "Peterkin is a southern white woman, but she has the eye and the ear to see beauty and know truth." -- W.E.B. Du Bois
In this concluding novel of Stribling's trilogy on the changes facing the South between the Civil War and the Great Depression, Jerry Catlin, nephew to Col. Miltiades Vaiden, embodies the "secularization of religion" during the 1920s.--Intro., p. vi.
In the intense blossoming of American literary talent between the World Wars, T.S. Stribling took his place with Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and other members of his generation with the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his bestselling novel The Store. In Laughing Stock, Stribling’s autobiography, the gifted writer reflects with humor, irony, and passion on his trajectory from a remote southern town to the literary heights of Paris and New York.
Sabine Callendar, having fled the limitations of life in Durham, New England, shocks her family and the community once again when she returns unbowed twenty years later to present her daughter to society.
The winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize in literature and the subject of several well-received film adaptations, Alice Adams is regarded as one of Booth Tarkington's most accomplished novels. The tale follows the exploits of the plucky young protagonist, who disregards her family's low social standing and pursues love with the well-heeled young man of her dreams.
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