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Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered. Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great nineteenth-century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time.

Pasternak is best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Due to the novel's independent-minded stance on the socialist state, Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which both humiliated and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were...
Believe to be First American Edition, 1958, stated Twentieth Printing. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari "the Poems of Yurii Zhivago" by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.Book in good condition, grey boards, no yelllowing or soiling, text and colors are vibrant. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. A good copy.

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, DRAGON SEEDbrings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupationof mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around thefictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenchingdevastation that war inflicted on these gentle innocentpeople.Dragon Seed is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Some characters seek protection in the city while others become collaborators. This story focuses less on the details of the attack and more on the characters' reactions to the events in Nanking.[1] The Nanking Massacre (commonly called the Rape of Nanking) describes months of horrific violence by the Imperial Japanese Army as they conquered the city; the novel takes place during these events. Ms. Buck opines in the novel that Japanese troops passing through China feel no… Read More

Mining historical novel, five men who brave the frozen Canadian wilderness during the Klondike gold rush of 1897, risking everything to fulfill their dreams. A highly readable drama filled with the blend of fact and fiction that is Michener's trademark.((Random House--Fiction-Historical)
Stated First American Edition, Random House,07/08/1989. Book in NearFine condition, no visibledefects, tight and bright, no bumped corners, colors vibrant. DJ in Near Mint condition, unclipped $16.95on front flap,

As Major Norman Starr is about to appear before a congressional committee to publicly account for his covert actions, he recalls the heritage of his ancestors and the role they played in the true glory of America. Bestselling author James Michener has painted a timeless family portrait and an eloquent lesson in American history. "Michener is a master storyteller." MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
Stated First Edition, First Printing, Random House. 07/12/97. Book in better than very good condition, two very small, very light, spot to front red board. (Did not attempt to clean, not enough experience yet) . DJ in very good condition,clean and bright,. A very good copy.

Louis Fischer was a Jewish-American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-Communist treatise The God that Failed (1949), a Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Award in History and Biography
Harper & Row, 06/1964. First Edition. Book in good condition, tight,corners no bumped, text is clean,. DJ is good , two small tears,back bottom and top front, dj shows some shelf wear, unclipped $12.50 on front flap.

Le Rouge et le Noir, French for The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel. It is a fictional depiction of French society in the 1820's, two decades after the French Revolution and its ensuing Terror. The plot was based on Stendhal's personal experiences, on legal documents, and on historical accounts. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy.Printed on archival papers and with gilt page edges. The acid free paper is 55-pound Franklin Library 1854 Cream.

First edition, good condition. Good dust jacket, very little wear on tob and botton.
A thousand British and American POWs learn to hate the American colonel who singlehandedly shapes them up. His strict discipline brings order to the camp; it also earns him a derisive "von." When Italy surrenders, German guards herd the men into boxcars for shipment to the Reich. Ryan has other ideas. He reckons to take the train to Switzerland...and freedom.This First Edition issued as a Book-Of-The-Month-Club Selection