J S Sanders Books: 27 books

Cover of Confederate Wizards of the Saddle
by Bennett H. Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1999

The Confederate cavalrymen, with their chivalric manners and death-defying exploits, were the last of their kind to take part in large-scale military conflict. Included are chapters on J. E. B. Stuart, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Wade Hampton, John Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, and many more.
Cover of A Wake for the Living
by Andrew Nelson Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1992

"The Last Agrarian" portrays the history and character of the people of the mid-South through a history of his family, giving, in the words of critic J. A. Bryant, Jr., a “rendering of a bygone world that brings the ache of beauty remembered.” Southern Classics Series.
Cover of The Real Charlotte
by Edith Somerville, Martin Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999

A masterpiece of Irish literature of the Victorian Age, The Real Charlotte draws characters from the worlds of Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the native Irish peasantry. “Delightful.”—The Guardian.
Cover of Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
by E. O. Somerville, Martin Ross
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1998

“As the straight-man narrator, observer, and regular butt of hundreds of hilarious trials and mishaps, Major Yeates never ceases to be surprised, is usually not amused, and can't stop himself from loving his Irish neighbors.”—500 Great Books by Women.
Cover of Mosby's Memoirs
by John S. Mosby
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1995

The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. “No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby.”—Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.
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Bedford Forrest

and His Critter Company

by Andrew Nelson Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1993

This biography of the Confederacy's greatest cavalry leaders is considered by many to be the best. Southern Classics Series.
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The Tennessee

The Old River: Frontier to Secession

by Donald Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1991

From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity," this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished. Southern Classics Series.
Cover of Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
by Johnson Jones Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1993

A Classic of the Southwestern Humor school that influenced Mark Twain, this portrait of a rascally backcountry trickster remains an engaging parody of enduring aspects of the American character. Southern Classics Series.
Cover of The Big House of Inver
by Edith Somerville, Martin Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999

This novel, according to Somerville, "concerns the history of one of those minor dynasties that, in Ireland, have risen, and rules, and rioted, and crashed in ruins." "Somerville and Ross know their world as well as Jane Austen knew hers."—John Bayley.
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The Fugitive Poets

Modern Southern Poetry

by William Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1991

The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a “backward glance” before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.
Cover of Night Rider
by Robert Penn Warren
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1992

Warren's first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren's innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. Southern Classics Series.
Cover of So Red the Rose
by Stark Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1992

Young's novel of war coming to the Natchez region of Mississippi has long been considered one of the best of Civil War novels. “If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life.”—New York Times. Southern Classics Series.
Cover of Nashville 1864
by Madison Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006

This award-winning novel follows twelve-year-old Steven Moore and his slave companion on a nightmarish journey behind Union lines.
Cover of The War the Women Lived
by Walter Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003

Selections from the Civil War diaries and memoirs of twenty-three Southern women form an account of the war as it was lived and endured on the domestic front in the South.
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