Lives and letters
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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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Charleston
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.
Left hand, right hand!
Volume 1 of Sitwell's autobiography, who grew up among the aristocracy in the early years of the 20th century. "I should like to emphasize that I want my memories to be old-fashioned and extravagant -- as they are; -- I want this book to be as full of detail, massed or individual, as my last book of short stories was shorn of it because of its form; I want this to be gothic, complicated in surface and crowned with turrets and pinnacles, for that is its nature." - Oswald Sitwell.