The Broken Sword or A Pictorial Page in Reconstruction

By D. Worthington

Book Overview

In the shattered calm of the post-Civil War South, victory tastes like ash. But the reckoning has not. "The Broken Sword; or, A Pictorial Page in Reconstruction" stands as a powerful southern historical novel, evoking the fraught aftermath of the Civil War and the uneasy birth of the American Reconstruction period. Written from within the 19th-century American South, D. Worthington traces the tensions of reconstruction era society - defeated yet defiant, transformed yet resistant - with an eye for moral complexity and emotional truth. This is reconstruction era historical fiction for Civil War fiction readers who care as much about what came after Appomattox as what happened on the battlefield, and for students of Reconstruction seeking a living, narrative complement to history and scholarship. Moving beyond battlefield heroics into the intimate struggles of homes, towns and institutions under strain, Worthington's narrative traces themes of power, loss, memory and contested justice in civil war reconstruction novels and southern postwar literature. Its carefully observed scenes and period voice offer a textured sense of how ordinary people navigated change, making it as rewarding for casual readers of American Civil War novels as for serious enquiry into the era. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353607175
• ISBN13: 9789353607173
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"