- Causes, Fiction, History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Published in 1982, North and South introduces the rice-growing Mains of South Carolina and the ironworking Hazards of Pennsylvania, whose respective scions Orry and George meet and become friends at West Point. Over the next two decades (1842–1861) the men fight in the Mexican–American War, suffer various family conflicts, and witness the increasing discord between the North and the South regions of the United States.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- John Jakes
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 787
- Publisher
- Dell, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, G.K. Hall
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780517195352
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