
Delta Wedding
'The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog. Its real name was the Yazoo-Delta. It was a mixed train. The day was the 10th of September, 1923--af...
View full details'The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog. Its real name was the Yazoo-Delta. It was a mixed train. The day was the 10th of September, 1923--af...
View full details'One morning in the late summer of 1930 the proprietor and several guests at the Union Hotel at Crestcrego, Texas, were annoyed to discover Biblica...
View full detailsBrilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934), written when Josephine Winslow Johnson was only 24, depicts a...
View full details'Nowadays, I understand, the tourists come for miles to see Hendry Jones' grave out on the Punta del Diablo and to debate whether his bones are the...
View full details'The Benedictine whisked a brush of multicoloured feathers over the top of the book, puffed out his plump cheeks like the god of winds in an old na...
View full details'The town governors... all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the...
View full details'Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. I wonder if she stands there yet...' Hagar Shipley--an irascible, independent non...
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