LEATHER JOHN BROWN’S BODY Benet American Masterpieces CIVIL WAR Epic Poem

by Sinclair Lewis, STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } JOHN BROWN’S BODY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Illustrated by Peter Harritos LIMITED Collector's edition by The Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Like new leather bound, illustrated, 1976. Excellent cover, clean bright & unmarked interior. Leather bound. Black leather, 22k gold gilt titling and decoration on cover & spine, five raised spine bands. All edges 22k gold gilt. Satin bookmark bound-in, silk moire endpapers. Printed on archival acid-neutral paper. One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown s Body is Stephen Vincent Benét s masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience. "Magnificently readable." New Statesman. "It is not one of your tours de forces of intellect and technique, to be admired and then tucked away on the library shelf. It is a library of storytelling itself, a poem extraordinarily rich in action as well as actors, vivid, varied, and so expressive of many men and moods that prose could never have carried its electric burden." Saturday Review. "A remarkable piece of imaginative reporting; and one in which not only the forces which make history are embodied in the speech

• Publisher: The Franklin Library
• Year: 1976
• Condition: Fine

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