Thursday, December 15, 2011

What is a novel based in the the Reconstruction period after the Civil War?

I need to do a book report on any novel that takes place after the civil war (preferably during reconstruction) and before WWI. Know of any?|||I haven't read it, but I found:





"A Fool's Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction" by Albion W. Tourgee:





There had been rumors in the air, for some months, of a strangely mysterious organization, said to be spreading over the Southern States, which added to the usual intangibility of the secret society an element of the grotesque superstition unmatched in the history of any other.... Here and there throughout the South, by a sort of sporadic instinct, bands of ghostly horsemen, in quaint and horrible guise, appeared, and admonished the lazy and trifling of the African race... -from "Chapter XXVII: A New Institution" Subtitled "A Novel of the South During Reconstruction," this 1879 bestseller, by a participant in that great social experiment, is the barely fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North Carolina after the Civil War. A champion of the poor and landless of any race, and a keen observer of the dilemmas facing uneducated Negroes in the postwar period, Tourg茅e offers us an important eyewitness account of one of the most tumultuous eras of American history, one that continues to influence the course of the American experiences of race and class to this day.





Here's the link to the search for "reconstruction after the civil war" in fiction on Amazon, in case this is not what you are looking for:





http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_n鈥?/a>|||Here are some links that you might find interesting.





http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/civilwar/鈥?/a>


http://www.questia.com/library/history/r鈥?/a>


http://books.google.com/books?q=Civil+wa鈥?/a>





Good Luck!


The History Man


http://wwwhistoryman.blogspot.com/|||Gone With the Wind...it starts off right before the Civil War and ends during Reconstruction.

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