The Turmoil  |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1915.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
The story uses a tale of two families following different trajectories but linked by romance to provide a glimpse of the changes induced by industrialization and urbanization.
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| 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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| 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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| The Man-eaters of Tsavo |
| John Henry Patterson (1867 - 1947) |
The books tells the true story of attacks by man-eating lions on the Uganda railway in Tsavo Kenya in 1898.
Over one hundred people were killed in under a year. The attacks stopped only after the all the lions had been tracked down and killed by Patterson.
In the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness Val Kilmer played Patterson.
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| Dogland http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/2007/07/dogland.html |
| Will Shetterly ( - ) http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/ |
Will Shetterly is a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and author of many novels
The floridian magical realism of Dogland follows the Nix family as they move across the country to create DOGLAND and the US moves into the turbulent sixties
Though the novels setting in a tourist attraction featuring hundreds of dog breeds might seem pure whimsy, it is apparently autobiographical.
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| Ginny Good http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn1.html |
| Gerard Jones ( - ) http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com/index.html |
"...of all the books I've read, Ginny Good is the only book that had me simultaneously crying my eyeballs out and laughing my head off. Several times throughout, in fact. In a word: WOW"
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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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