The Forge The Forge
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Publisher Description

The first book in T. S. Stribling’s award-winning Vaiden Trilogy about life in north Alabama at the onset, during, and after the Civil War

Originally published in 1931, The Forge introduces the Vaiden family, residents of the rural north Alabama of Stribling’s own youth. The Vaidens are a family of white yeoman farmers who scratch out a living in the social and financial shadow of the Lacefields, masters of an opulent plantation nearby.

The novel opens on Alabama’s secession and the onset of the Civil War. It traces the story of Miltiades Vaiden, who enlists in the Confederate army, and explores the ways the Vaidens, Lacefields, and freed slaves attempt to adapt to the collapse of southern society on the home front.

After The Forge, Stribling continued the Vaiden saga in 1932 with The Store, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. He completed the trilogy in 1934 with The Unfinished Cathedral. Together, the three books paint a portrait of the agrarian South of the mid-nineteenth century, its destruction, and the beginnings of a mercantile future.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
26 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
560
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Alabama Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
1.5
MB

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