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Well-nigh reconstructed : a political novel /

In 1882, William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised. autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was especially not...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matthews, Brinsley, 1849-1920
Otros Autores: Yandle, Paul D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Appalachian echoes.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduced to You
  • 2. A Rule of War Unknown to Grotius
  • 3. A Letter from Home, and a Good-Bye to Brookwood
  • 4. The Serpent Enters
  • 5. A Moonshiner and Some of His Opinions
  • 6. The Fruit of the Before-Mentioned Opinions
  • 7. In Which a Stranger Presents Himself Who Will after Awhile Be Better Known
  • 8. Reconstruction Justice
  • 9. The Spoilers of the Canaanites
  • 10. A Gentlemanly K.K.
  • 11. K.K. That Were Not Gentlemen
  • 12. That the Meat of a Lady's Letter Is in the Post-Script
  • 13. A Little of Love and More of Loyalty
  • 14. A Very Young Man's Letter
  • 15. About Many Things, None of Which Very Much Affect the Story
  • 16. The Weightiest of Reminders
  • 17. A Prelude of Nonsense Followed by the Swamp of a Life-Boat
  • 18. Ravenscroft under a Cloud
  • 19. The Cloud Blackens and Bursts
  • 20. A Court Organized to Convict
  • 21. Conviction without a Court
  • 22. Conjunctive Treason to Cornelia
  • 23. En Route
  • 24. A Letter from Archibald Moran to Robert Cleburne
  • 25. From the Same to the Same
  • 26. A Couple of Ca-Sa's
  • 27. Tit for Tat
  • 28. New Friends
  • 29. Faithful unto Death
  • 30. A Sweeter South
  • 31. The European Episode Ends
  • 32. The Fatted Calf
  • 33. Hands All 'Round.