THE FLOWERING OF THE CUMBERLAND.

History

Arnow, Harriette Simpson

Americas

MACMILLAN. NY 1963

After moving from the backwoods to the city, Gertie Nevel, a naive newcomer from Kentucky, develops a unique defense against the ugliness and despair of urban poverty, in a new edition of the classic American novel, first published in 1954, which contains a new afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint.

The Dollmaker

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Perennial Pr

Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the re-release of Harriette Simpson Arnow's 1949 novel Hunter's Horn, a work that Joyce Carol Oates called "our most unpretentious American masterpiece."       In Hunter's Horn, Arnow has written the quintessential account of Kentucky hill people--the quintessential novel of Southern Appalachian farmers, foxhunters, foxhounds, women, and children. New York Times reviewer Hirschel Brickell declared that Arnow "writes...as effortlessly as a bird sings, and the warmth, beauty, the sadness and the ache of life itself are not even once absent from her pages."       Arnow writes about Kentucky in the way that William Faulkner writes about Mississippi, that Flannery O'Connor writes about Georgia, or that Willa Cather writes about Nebraska--with studied realism, with landscapes and characters that take on mythic proportions, with humor, and with memorable and remarkable attention to details of the hu

Hunter's Horn

Avon/Books

Arnow explores the secret world of a precocious fifteen year old girl.  It is a world, not of fantasy but of intense reality, kept precariously and ingeniously hidden from her parents and mentors.

The Weedkiller's Daughter

Alfred.A. Knopf

Finding his farm abandoned and his family gone when he returns from the Revolution, Leslie Collins sets out in pursuit on the Kentucky Trace following the only clue he has

The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution

Contemporary

The settling of southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee from pre-Revolutionary times to the beginning of the nineteenth century is described in everyday detail by Harriette Arnow, the author of The Dollmaker. “It is the art of pioneering rather than the acts of individuals in the westward movement that gives backbone to this book,” wrote historian Thomas D. Clark in the New York Times Book Review. “The author takes her reader along the early trails, onto the land, into the cabins, and even into the private lives of the people.” Seedtime on the Cumberland won the 1961 Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History.

Seedtime on the Cumberland

University Of Nebraska Press

The author of Seedtime on the Cumberland returns with another richly detailed evocation of pioneering in the Cumberland River basin, or what is now middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. Not a sequel but a companion piece, Flowering of the Cumberland covers much the same time—from first settlement in 1780 to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Whereas Seedtime was preoccupied with solitary men and women struggling to secure food, clothing, shelter, and land, Flowering goes beyond simple survival to focus on family and community. 
Memorably described are the strength of women like Sally Buchanan in stations fortified against Indian attack, the emergence of men like Andrew Jackson, the pursuit of sex and marriage, the birthing and raising of children, schooling, the state of agriculture, business opportunities and the professions, religion and tolerance, border politics, and social life and diversions. An entire bygone world comes to life, and with it the smell of strong whiskey, the clippety-clop of horses, and the haunts of ghosts.

Flowering of the Cumberland

The author of Seedtime on the Cumberland returns with another richly detailed evocation of pioneering in the Cumberland River basin, or what is now middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. Not a sequel but a companion piece, Flowering of the Cumberland covers much the same timeâ€”from first settlement in 1780 to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Whereas Seedtime was preoccupied with solitary men and women struggling to secure food, clothing, shelter, and land, Flowering goes beyond simple survival to focus on family and community. Memorably described are the strength of women like Sally Buchanan in stations fortified against Indian attack, the emergence of men like Andrew Jackson, the pursuit of sex and marriage, the birthing and raising of children, schooling, the state of agriculture, business opportunities and the professions, religion and tolerance, border politics, and social life and diversions. An entire bygone world comes to life, and with it the smell of strong whiskey, the clippety-clop of horses, and the haunts of ghosts.

University Press of Kentucky

The author describes life in the Kentucky town--now buried under the waters of man-made Lake Cumberland-during the early twentieth century when its booming lumber industry made it a center for railroad and steamboat shipping

Old Burnside (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookself)

Univ Pr of Kentucky

The settling of southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee from pre-Revolutionary times to the beginning of the nineteenth century is described in everyday detail by Harriette Arnow, the author of The Dollmaker. “It is the art of pioneering rather than the acts of individuals in the westward movement that gives backbone to this book,” wrote historian Thomas D. Clark in the New York Times Book Review. “The author takes her reader along the early trails, onto the land, into the cabins, and even into the private lives of the people.” Seedtime on the Cumberland won the 1961 Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History.

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THE FLOWERING OF THE CUMBERLAND.

The Dollmaker

Hunter's Horn

The Weedkiller's Daughter

The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution

Seedtime on the Cumberland

Flowering of the Cumberland

Flowering of the Cumberland

Old Burnside (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookself)

Seedtime on the Cumberland