The Battle Ground (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781417904914)

The Battle Ground is a novel written by Ellen Glasgow, an American author. The story is set in the post-Civil War era in the southern United States and revolves around two families, the Pendletons and the Ransomes, who are locked in a bitter feud. The novel explores themes of love, revenge, and redemption as the characters navigate the complex social and political landscape of the Reconstruction era.The main character, Major James Ransome, is a former Confederate soldier who returns home to find his family's plantation in ruins and his father dead. He blames the Pendletons, a wealthy family who supported the Union during the war, for his family's misfortunes and becomes obsessed with seeking revenge. Meanwhile, his sister, Celia, falls in love with a Pendleton, and the two families are forced to confront their prejudices and reconcile their differences.The Battle Ground is a powerful and insightful novel that delves into the complexities of race, class, and gender in the post-Civil War South. Glasgow's vivid descriptions and nuanced characters bring the story to life and offer a unique perspective on a pivotal moment in American history.1902. Glasgow�������s realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942. The Battle Ground is the earliest of a series of novels which Glasgow hoped might become in time a complete social history of Virginia since the Civil War. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Author: Ellen Glasgow
ISBN-10: 1417904917
ISBN-13: 9781417904914
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d