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Manassas: A Novel of the War
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Manassas: A Novel of the War Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Upton Sinclair; Kent Gramm (Editor); Introduction by Kent Gramm

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Centers on the moral dimension of the conflict as it traces a young Mississippi boy's conversion from pro-slavery Southerner to abolitionist Union soldier

Allan Montague, born on a Mississippi plantation about twenty years before the Civil War, has grown up with slavery and considers it natural. When his father moves to Boston for business and takes the boy with him, young Allan carries a knife given to him by his cousin to use in killing abolitionists.

The first abolitionist young Allan meets in Boston is Levi Coffin, the reputed founder of the Underground Railroad. In this first of many meetings with historical figures, Allan forms a friendship with Coffin, who eventually takes him to hear a speech by former slave Frederick Douglass. Douglass's powerful words cement Allan's transformation into an abolitionist--a transformation that will lead him back to his Deep South home with the hope of freeing slaves and eventually back to the North and the fateful Battle of Manassas.

Kent Gramm, author of the introduction for this new edition of Manassas, calls the novel "a modern version of the morality play," with the United States as the central character. "The real story, he writes, is the moral phenomenon of the Civil War." It is a powerful book that deserves to be revived, read, and studied.

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  • Title Manassas: A Novel of the War
  • Author Upton Sinclair; Kent Gramm (Editor); Introduction by Kent Gramm
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 438
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Publication date April 18, 2000
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780817310448 / 0817310444
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.49 x 5.51 x 1.04 in (21.56 x 14.00 x 2.64 cm)
  • Reading level 1080
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861, Virginia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00029872
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 180

About the author

Upton Sinclair was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the author of 80 books, and his 1942 novel Dragon's Teeth won a Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1968.

Kent Gramm is professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois

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