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Contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what is apparently…
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Erskine Caldwell
This collection of 96 stories presents the best of Erskine Calder’s short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included here is Crown-Fire , Country Full of Swedes…
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Harvey L. Klevar
Since the 1930s, Erskine Caldwell's writings have provoked laughter and pathos, curiosity and disbelief. His perplexing char-acters, comically motivated only by their instincts for survival, allowed Caldwell to illustrate the…
Robert McDonald
The 57 pieces collected in this volume were chosen to represent all sides and perspectives in the evolving critical opinion of Caldwell’s work. The items are grouped in sections representing…
Features 12 essays that explore many issues. They discuss Erskine Caldwell as humorist, social commentator, modernist, and revolutionary novelist. A bibliography includes not only books on Caldwell but also chapters…
This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of…
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers. Debased by their poverty, they fear…
Set during the Depression, Tobacco Road is the story of a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance, selfishness, and fear that they…
I’m just an ordinary writer, Erskine Caldwell once wrote.I’m not trying to sell anything; I’m not trying to buy anything. I’m just trying to present my vision of life…
Jay Caldwell
Both biographically revealing and analyticallyastute, author Jay Caldwell offers a profound, new perspective on two of America'smost renowned midcentury artists at the peaks of their careers.
Hartmut Heuermann
Die Gattung der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte ist in ihren zahlreichen Exponenten (Poe, Anderson, O. Henry, Hemingway u.v.a.) von der Literaturkritik ebenso extensiv wie intensiv gewurdigt worden. Weitgehend unbeachtet von der akademischen…
CALDWELL
Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forces of public opinion and…
This memoir presents a self-portrait of Esrkine Caldwell’s first 30 years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the…
This is the story of the journey of Erskine Caldwell as he set out across the South to find his black boyhood friend, at the zenith of the civil rights…
This work presents a mixture of anecdotes, memories, interviews and observations from a minister’s son whose father performed missionary work in the deeply religious communities of the Bible Belt in…
James Korges
Erskine Caldwell - American Writers 78 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
This novel introduces the philandering, murderous itinerant preacher, Semon Dye. Part allegory, part tall tale, and with a good measure of old frontier humour, Journeyman tells of a stranger, as…
In this collection of 14 inter-related stories, 12-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures.
A semi-autobiography of the childhood of Alan Kent, from early manhood to artist. The text includes brief, graphic sketches which illustrate the struggle against various hardening effects of a brutal…
A graphic portrayal of the sharecropper’s plight. This book documents the living conditions of the sharecroppers, America’s poor rural underclass. Supported by commentary, the poor tell how the tenant system…
In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months travelling across the back roads of the Deep South to document the living…
Joel Chandler Harris
The enduring fame of Joel Harris as a skillful storyteller had its beginning with the publication of the first of his enchanting Uncle Remus stories. These and other local colour…
