Ellen Glasgow

The Deliverance; A Romance Of The Virginia Tobacco Fields

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh light falls on an enduring story. The Deliverance invites you into the fields and fortunes of Virginia, where love and duty collide under a late-19th-century sun. This complete edition restores Ellen Glasgow's acclaimed novel as a vivid blend of historical romance and keen social observation. It follows lives braided by tobacco wealth and toil, where romance flourishes amid postbellum South complexities and class tensions. The book moves with a quiet grandeur, offering a panoramic sense of place-the Virginia tobacco country-while exploring how ambition, loyalty, and desire shape the fate of families and communities. It is a work of American regional fiction that speaks to today's readers as clearly as it did to readers of Glasgow's era, presenting a richly illustrated historical milieu and a story that rewards both casual reading and study. The Deliverance holds notable literary and historical significance as a southern literary classic that documents a pivotal moment in Southern life with moral nuance and human warmth. It appeals to book clubs and classroom readers alike, inviting discussion about social change, gender roles, and the rhythms of rural life. It's more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. This complete edition is designed for lovers of historical romance, American regional fiction, and enduring Southern storytelling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9789354758690
• ISBN-10: 935475869X
• Artikelnr.: 62207802

Autorenporträt

Gholson, Ellen Anderson Glasgow, an American novelist who lived from April 22, 1873, to November 21, 1945, was the recipient of the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book in This Our Life. She received positive reviews for her 20 novels and short stories. Unlike the romantic escapism that typified Southern literature following Reconstruction, Glasgow, a lifelong Virginian, depicted the evolving South in a realistic way. The young Glasgow, who was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond, Virginia, was raised differently from other ladies of her aristocratic class than her mother, Anne Jane Gholson (1831-1893), and her husband, Francis Thomas Glasgow. Glasgow had the equivalent of a high school education at home in Richmond due to her bad health, which was later diagnosed as chronic heart illness. Despite this, she studied extensively in European and British literature, social and political theory, and philosophy. Glasgow authored 20 novels, a book of short tales, a book of poetry, and a book of literary criticism during the course of more than 40 years of literary output. When she was 24 years old, her debut book, The Descendant (1897), was published under pseudonyms after being written in secret. After her mother passed away in 1893, she partially destroyed the manuscript.