Erskine Caldwell

Jeeter Lester, a poor Georgia sharecropper, and his family struggle to get by, but when his son Dude is seduced and married by Jeeter's widowed sister, it starts a tragic chain of events.

Tobacco Road

Ty Ty Walden, a poor Georgia farmer, dedicates an acre of his barren land to God as he and his family struggle for peace and prosperity

God's Little Acre

Patricia Wentworth

The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his uncle and has served a year of his sentence already. Or has he? The evidence against Geoffrey Grey is convincing but his wife believes in his innocence. And so does her young cousin, Hilary, who decides to solve the mystery herself. But when Hilary is nearly murdered she turns in desperation to her ex-fiance for help. Fortunately, he is acquainted with the singular Miss Silver, who is only too pleased to be asked to investigate.

A House in the Uplands

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This novel introduces one of Caldwell's most memorable characters: the philandering, murderous itinerant preacher, Semon Dye. Part allegory, part tall tale, and with a good measure of old frontier humor, Journeyman tells of this devilish stranger who mysteriously arrives in Rocky Comfort, Georgia, and nearly tears the small community apart.

Journeyman

Jenny

La via del tabacco

Amor e dinheiro

All-out on the Road to Smolensk

Durante a Grande Depressão americana, a família Lester não sabe como sobreviver à miséria que se avizinha. Residem e gerem os territórios rurais da Geórgia, cultivados com tabaco e algodão, mas já nem isso os salva. Debilitados pela pobreza ao ponto de atingirem um estado de ignorância e egoísmo cruel, os Lesters preocupam-se com a fome, os apetites sexuais que os devoram e o medo de que a hierarquia social os empurre para uma camada ainda mais desfavorecida. A pobreza, o racismo e a bestialidade dos homens são aqui postas a nu, despindo a sociedade americana dos anos 20 com crueza e violência, numa tragicomédia de mestre. A Estrada do Tabaco é um dos grandes clássicos americanos de Erskine Caldwell.

A Estrada do Tabaco

Fourteen stories that follow a young boy coming of age in a dysfunctional family in the rural South Meet William Stroop, a young son of the South whose charming voice and mordant observations of family and culture make him one of American literature’s most memorable narrators. In these fourteen interwoven stories, William details the high (and low) points of his family history, focusing particularly on his lazy, scheming father, Morris, his put-upon mother, Martha, and his confidante, Handsome Brown, a young black farmhand. As Morris matches wits with strangers and neighbors alike in constant pursuit of get-rich-quick plans, Martha tries to hold the family together without the aid of any discernable income. Told with the polish and moral resonance of fables, Georgia Boy captures the beauty and tragedy of life in the rural South during the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.

Stories

Georgia Boy

Love and Money

A small Southern town lynches a falsely accused man in “some of the most . . . human and terrifying pages Caldwell has written” (Richard Wright, author of Native Son). When word spreads through Julie County that Sonny Clark, a black man, has assaulted Katy Barlow, a white woman, the man’s fate is sealed. With frightening speed, authorities and an outraged mob align to apprehend Clark and condemn him without trial. By the time Barlow confesses that no crime occurred, it is too late. Told from the multiple perspectives of victim and victimizers as well as passive onlookers, Trouble in July depicts in harrowing detail the tragic ignorance of individuals who fail to understand their roles in a hateful miscarriage of justice. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.

A Novel

Trouble in July

The Windfall

Die Letzte Sommernacht (The Last Night of Summer, Dt.-Dt. V. Brigitte Weitbrecht.).

If Only to Remember the Flat-lands

Drumul tutunului

The Last Night of Summer

This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included is "Crown-Fire," which James Dickey praised as "the best story in the language," and such personal favorites of Caldwell as "Country Full of Swedes," "The Windfall," "Horse Thief," "Yellow Girl," and "Kneel to the Rising Sun."

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