Oxford American Most Underrated Southern Books

32 obres 127,112 Llibres 2,709 Ressenyes 4.3
Oxford American's poll on the best southern books also asked its judges to name the most underrated southern books. A sampling, with judges' comments, was published in the August 2009 issue of Oxford mostra'n més American, and the full list in its website. mostra'n menys
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A Death in the Family (1957) de James Agee
A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) de Nelson Algren
The Gay Place (1961) de Billy Lee Brammer
Lovers of Louisiana (To-Day) (1988) de George Washington Cable
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (1962) de Harry M. Caudill
It Is Time, Lord (Voices of the South) (1963) de Fred Chappell
Go Down, Moses (1942) de William Faulkner
Sartoris (1929) de William Faulkner
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes) (1948) de Douglas Southall Freeman
Of Love and Dust (1967) de Ernest J. Gaines
The Sheltered Life (1932) de Ellen Glasgow
The Keepers of the House (1964) de Shirley Ann Grau
The Recording Angel (1912) de Corra Harris
Youngblood (1982) de John Oliver Killens
Matar un rossinyol (1960) de Harper Lee
To Make My Bread (1932) de Grace Lumpkin
Frankie Addams (1946) de Carson McCullers
Gone with the Wind (1936) de Margaret Mitchell
Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) de Anne Moody
The Great Big Doorstep (Lost American fiction) (1979) de E. P. O'Donnell
Hold Autumn in Your Hand (1941) de George Sessions Perry
True Grit (1968) de Charles Portis
Cross Creek (1942) de Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Time of Man: A Novel (1926) de Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The Wave (Voices of the South) (1929) de Evelyn Scott
Killers of the Dream (1949) de Lillian Smith
River of Earth (1940) de James Still
Jubilee (1966) de Margaret Walker
The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought (1968) de Richard M. Weaver
Stoner (1965) de John Williams
Negroes With Guns (1962) de Robert F. Williams
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) de Tom Wolfe

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