WHERE MY HEART IS TURNING EVER: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform 1861-1876.
by Diffley, Kathleen (Mark Twain, John W. De Forest and Rebecca Harding Davis.)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0820314455
- ISBN 13
- 9780820314457
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About This Item
Athens:: University of Georgia Press,, (1992.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Looks at more than 300 short narratives published throughout the country,in 16 different magazines, stories that either confronted or evaded the Civil War and its aftermath. Diffley divides these stories into three broad genres - Old Homestead, Romance and Adventure. Included in this book are three examples of these stories: Mark Twain 'A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It.' De Forest 'Parole de Honneur' and Rebecca Harding Davis 'How the Widow Crossed the Lines.' Illustrated, bibliography, index. xlvii, 236 pp.
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- Title
- WHERE MY HEART IS TURNING EVER: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform 1861-1876.
- Author
- Diffley, Kathleen (Mark Twain, John W. De Forest and Rebecca Harding Davis.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0820314455
- ISBN 13
- 9780820314457
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press,
- Place of Publication
- Athens:
- Date Published
- (1992.)
- Keywords
- literary criticism, short fiction, publishing, civil war, reconstruction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War / War Between the States;
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