- Andersonville (Ga.), Andersonville Prison, Fiction, History
"The greatest of our Civil War novels." - The New York Times The 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- MacKinlay Kantor
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 767
- Publisher
- Luis de Caralt, World Publishing Company, Peter Smith Publisher
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- und, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780147515377
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