I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Anniversary)

6 best books like I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Anniversary) (Twelve Southerners): A Single Shard, All the King's Men, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, Lost Boy: A Novella, Stories of the Modern South

A Single Shard

Author	Linda Sue Park
ISBN	0440418518

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear...

All the King's Men

Author	Robert Penn Warren
ISBN	0156004801

More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful...

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Author	Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN	0156188767

A very skilled short story writer, Katherine Anne Porter brings to life her characters and, primarily through character development, takes you deep into their world with a minimum of words. Not once did I feel that a story ended prematurely or that I wanted or expected more than I got.

She tackles...

Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy

Author	Donald Kagan
ISBN	0684863952

Because of a dearth of primary source materials author Kagan must progress here by way of thematic chapters: "The Statesman," "The Visionary," "The Peacemaker," and so on. We see the people, the buildings, the wars, the navy, the art, the pantheism, the slaves, the empire, the rebellions, the legal...

Lost Boy: A Novella

Author	Thomas Wolfe
ISBN	0807844861

Thomas Wolfe's novella The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. For this special, illustrated edition, James Clark unearthed Wolfe's original manuscript for the story, which was first published in Redbook in a heavily abridged form. This edition...

Stories of the Modern South

Author

Ben Forkner

Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a vital amalgam of a once-rural society's storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. This excellent collection includes works by Truman Capote,...