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Charleston

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Published 1906 Frances Lincoln 9 views
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0711211337, 9780711211339, 0701207809, 9780701207809, 0805055851, 0711214980, 9780711214989, 071122370X, 9780711223707
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John Jakes

John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.

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'I wish you'd leave Wissett, and take Charleston,' Virginia Woolf wrote to Vanessa Bell in May 1916...

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John Jakes brings us his sixteenth consecutive New York Times bestseller-an acclaimed saga of two nation-shaping wars as seen by a powerful South Carolina dynasty. Charleston follows the lives, loves and shifting fortunes of the unforgettable Bell family from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the savage defeat of the Confederacy-and represents America's premier storyteller at his very best.

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