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The Stories of Erskine Caldwell

The Stories of Erskine Caldwell
By Erskine Caldwell

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This collection of 96 stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. "No fictionist has written more strikingly of the modern South's problems."--Chicago Sunday Times.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #348129 in Books
  • Published on: 1996-10-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 688 pages

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"Caldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality."--Time


"No fictionist has written more strikingly of the modern South's problems."--Chicago Sunday Tribune

About the Author

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.

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sharp and concise5
Caldwell's stories are very sharp, concise and pointed. No word is wasted in his deceptively simple way of adressing Southern life in America. This anthology of short stories makes it pretty obvious that Caldwell ought to be read for years to come. Far more than a vulgar comedian; he is one of the very few writers that really manage to satirize the crudest, meanest, lowliest people you ever saw, and still come across as a story-teller who loves his characters.

I love this book, and have bought several for gifts5
I love this book (The Stories of Erskine Caldwell), and have bought several for gifts. The book was in the condition stated, and a reasonable price. I look forward to giving this book as a gift, and I'm sure my friend will like the book as well as I. It's nice to be able to shop on line, because it is less expensive, convenient and fast.

Rachel3
Despite the fact that I wasted a lot of time one summer searching high and low for a book called "Tobacco Road", which had been forbidden me as a read "unfit for children", Erskine Caldwell turned out not to be one of my favorite writers after all. For some reason, his style didn't fit my psyche.

Tobacco Road was a bust to me, but there is a collection of his short stories that I read later and found one story among them called "Rachel" that I have remembered all these years because of it's depiction of grim hopelessness regarding a tragic human condition known as "dire poverty". Rachel came out of an alley each night to meet the teller of her tale, and would not let him take her back to her home when the "date" was over. The conclusion in the final page is shocking; and the reader is taken into a realm unknown to most of us when the realization of what has happened sets in.

There are several stories among the collection that merit recognition, and although I couldn't get into much of Mr. Caldwell's themes, it's surely worth a look for the book enthusiast that wants to round out the experience by an older set of writings and concepts.