The U.P. Trail  |
| Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1918.
An epic novel set against the construction of the Union-Pacific Railroad between 1864 and 1869 and the introduction of the telegraph.
Full of wonderfully drawn characters and a central romantic thread.
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| The Hoosier School-Master |
| Edward Eggleston (1837 - 1902) |
1871 Best Seller.
From age 19 Eggleston was an itinerant preacher until travelling broke his health.
The books relates the experiences of a young man sent to be the only teacher of a backwoods rural Indiana town.
It is an early example of American realist fiction.
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| Beulah |
| Augusta Evans (1835 - 1909) |
1859 Best Seller.
The novel follows the orphaned Beulah from childhood in the Antebellum South through a troubled and stormy struggle for independence.
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| Black Rock |
| Ralph Connor (1860 - 1937) |
1898 Best Seller.
A new minister arrives at a mining and lumber boomtown in the 1880's West.
He is determined to 'clean up the town' and win a few souls, but the task proves more challenging than he anticipated.
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| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
| Lew Wallace (1827 - 1905) |
Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, and American statesman.
He is best remembered for Ben-Hur, an historical fiction set amongst the characters of the New Testament.
It was America's best selling novel for nearly sixty years after it's publication.
Follow the wikipedia link to see a great photo of the author.
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| Madame Bovary |
| Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) |
A seminal work of Realism, and one of the most influential novels ever written.
"What is remarkable in Madame Bovary is that its mediocre beings, with their earthbound ambitions and pedestrian problems, impress us, by virtue of the structure and the writing that create them, as beings who are out of the ordinary within their ordinary manner of being." - Mario Vargas Llosa, in The Perpetual Orgy
The novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, as she spirals out of control trying to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
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