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Sto caricando le informazioni... Yankee Strangerdi Elswyth Thane
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. One of my favorite Civil War books. ( ) I should not have picked this book up, as I barely put it down and got no work done yesterday at all because I was reading. Bad me. I enjoyed this, the second in the Williamsburg series by Thane, more than the third but less than the first. This novel covered the Civil War and did a fairly good job of capturing the horror of it while still allowing almost all the main characters to survive, despite the fact that nearly every male in it took part in the fighting. One family member is killed, one loses a leg, and one of the women dies of typhoid; various others recover from wounds. Maybe that's statistically normal; I don't know for sure. Love triumphs, for the most part; we also get to find out about the heart-wrenching development of one of the stories further explored in the third book, the doomed love of the double cousins Sue and Sedgwick. I'm still not happy about her self-sacrifice; she urges him to marry someone else so he'll have a family, but she herself remains single and devoted. Ugh. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Yankee Stranger is the second novel in the series. Williamsburg, Virginia, is once more the scene, but the time is now the 1860s. Some of the characters are the descendants of those in the first novel of the series, Dawn's Early Light, and Grandmother Day, who was sixteen when Cornallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now ninety-five. Once, she can remember, it was Massachusetts that was threatening to secede instead of South Carolina. And when she was a girl they never seemed to think much about Yankees, one way or the other. Therefore, when a Yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860 and red-haired Eden Day falls heels over head in love with him, her great-grandmother takes the long view--besides, she likes him herself. The story moves from Williamsburg to Richmond to Washington and back again during the dreadful years between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. In addition to the fictitious characters, Jeb Stuart and General Lee, Pickett, Magruder, and Stonewall Jackson are all seen through the eyes of the men who followed them into battle. Like Dawn's Early Light, Yankee Stranger is full of action and romance, but most importantly, it presents a vivid re-creation of a vanished world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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