<div><B>In the Depression-era Deep South, a destitute farmer struggles to raise a family on his own: The bestselling classic by the author of <I>Tobacco Road</I>.</B><BR />   Single father and poor Southern farmer Ty Ty Walden has a plan to save his farm and his family: He will tear his fields apart until he finds gold. While Ty Ty obsesses over his fool&rsquo;s quest, his sons and daughters search in vain for their own dreams of instant happiness&mdash;whether from money, violence, or sex. <I>God&rsquo;s Little Acre</I> is a classic dark comedy, a satire that lampoons a broken South while holding a light to the toll that poverty takes on the hopes and dreams of the poor themselves. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</div>

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God's Little Acre

<div><B>The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: &ldquo;[A] story of force and beauty&rdquo; (<I>New York Post</I>).</B> Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their twelve children are overcome by the fractured and violent society around them. Banned and burned when first released in 1932, <I>Tobacco Road </I>is a brutal examination of poverty&rsquo;s dehumanizing influence by one of America&rsquo;s great masters of political fiction. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</I></div>

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<div><b>Fourteen stories that follow a young boy coming of age in a dysfunctional family in the rural South </b><BR>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&rsquo;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, <i>Georgia Boy</i> 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.</div>

Georgia Boy

<div><B>The classic American novel of a philandering, murderous preacher from the national bestselling author of <I>God&rsquo;s Little Acre</I>. </B><BR />   When preacher Semon Dye moves into the tiny Georgia town of Rocky Comfort, many of its citizens welcome him. After all, the only church in town is being used to store fertilizer. But sermons aren&rsquo;t the first thing on the mind of the tall, magnetic, and utterly dissolute man. Other callings take priority: women, whiskey, gambling, and hiding from the law. Even as he seduces wives, cheats at cards, and provokes old feuds, Dye manages to cast a dark spell over all the people in Rocky Comfort.   <I>Journeyman</I> is a wicked send-up of religious fervor by an American master of dark political satire. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</I></div>

Journeyman

<div><B>A small Southern town lynches a falsely accused man in &ldquo;some of the most . . . human and terrifying pages Caldwell has written&rdquo; (Richard Wright, author of <I>Native Son</I>).</B><BR />   When word spreads through Julie County that Sonny Clark, a black man, has assaulted Katy Barlow, a white woman, the man&rsquo;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, <I>Trouble in July</I> depicts in harrowing detail the tragic ignorance of individuals who fail to understand their roles in a hateful miscarriage of justice. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</I></div>

Trouble in July

<div><B>A searing portrait of racism and violence in a small Southern town from the</B><B>national-bestselling author of <I>God&rsquo;s Little Acre</I>. </B><BR />  When mixed-race brother and sister Ganus and Kathyanne Bazemore move to Estherville, a small Southern town, they&rsquo;re looking for a fresh start. They don&rsquo;t know anyone and nobody knows them, but they are two bright, attractive young people looking for work. It doesn&rsquo;t take long, however, before the two kids are subjected to the worst of the town&rsquo;s lust, brutality, and bigotry. A gripping story of the pre&ndash;civil rights era South, <I>Place Called Estherville</I> offers a candid glimpse of one of America&rsquo;s most troubling legacies. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</div>

Place Called Estherville

<div><B>Short stories about the twentieth-century South by the national bestselling author of <I>Tobacco Road</I>.</B><BR />   Author of some of the most widely banned fiction of the twentieth century, Erskine Caldwell had a talent for striking a nerve. In this collection of nearly one hundred stories, the full depth and scope of his talent is on display, including his trademark biting satire as well as his skill at rendering deeply moving portraits of his native South. In a career that spanned over six decades, Caldwell produced stories that serve to document a changing society, from the dehumanizing trials of the Great Depression through the transformative battle to desegregate the South. Taken together, his short fiction reveals a voice that remains essential for readers hoping to understand the American experience.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</div>

The Stories of Erskine Caldwell

<div><b>In this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled South </b><BR>Five decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend&mdash;a friend lost to him through the culture of segregation. As Caldwell follows a trail through Georgia, South Carolina, and much of the Deep South in search of his black childhood friend Bisco, his interviews with white and black Americans expose a range of attitudes that are tragic, if not surprising. Published first in the mid-1960s just as the South was undergoing a radical transformation by freedom marches and sit-ins, <i>In Search of Bisco</i> offers a heartfelt account of the civil rights movement by one of the region&rsquo;s fiercest critics and most prominent sons. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</div>

In Search of Bisco

<div><B>Three powerful novels of racism, lust, and poverty in the rural South by a controversial national bestselling author.</B><BR /><BR /> Bigotry, poverty, social injustice, and sexual squalor in the Deep South&mdash;hallmarks of one of the most daring and phenomenally popular bestselling novelists of the twentieth-century. Here, in one volume, are three of his best-known works. &ldquo;None of [his] characters would be caught dead in a novel by John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, or Eudora Welty&rdquo; (<I>The Daily Beast</I>).<BR />  <BR /><I>Tobacco Road</I>: The Great Depression compromises the morals of a poor farming family in Georgia. This classic, a Modern Library 100 Best Novels selection, was adapted for the stage in 1933 and made into a 1941 film directed by John Ford.<BR />  <BR /><I>God&rsquo;s Little Acre</I>: Desperation takes its toll on a deluded Southern farmer obsessed with sex, violence, and the promise of gold. Banned in Boston, censored in Georgia, and prosecuted by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, this international bestseller was adapted into a film in 1958.<BR />  <BR /><I>A Place Called Estherville</I>: In the pre-civil-rights-era South, a biracial brother and sister move to a small segregated town to care for their aunt, only to be subjected to systematic racism, sexual violence, and prejudice.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records,&rdquo; said the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> of the author who earned his reputation by writing about sex, racism, and religious hypocrisy when no one else was. Caldwell remains one of the most widely translated American authors of all time.<BR /><BR />  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.</I></div>

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Books By Erskine Caldwell (9 Books)

God's Little Acre

Tobacco Road

Georgia Boy

Journeyman

Trouble in July

Place Called Estherville

The Stories of Erskine Caldwell

In Search of Bisco

Three Classic Novels

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