North & South (Civil War Boxed Set)
An Anthology of War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Rival Union and Confederate MemoriesBy Mark Twain, Joseph A. Altsheler, Winston Churchill, Ambrose Bierce, John William De Forest, G. A. Henty, María Ruiz de Burton, Thomas Dixon Jr., George Washington Cable, Harry Hazelton, Ellen Glasgow, B. K. Benson, Robert W. Chambers, George W. Peck, Byron A. Dunn, John Esten Cooke, John R. Musick, W. H. Shelton, Charles King, Henry F. Keenan, Jules Verne, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, Randall Parrish, John McElroy, Charles Carleton Coffin, Lucy Foster Madison, Edward Robins, Edward Everett Hale, James Ford Rhodes
Length435h 53m
About this audiobook
North & South (Civil War Boxed Set) assembles a capacious archive of Civil War writing in which battlefield adventure, sectional romance, political satire, historical narrative, juvenile fiction, and speculative imagination meet. Its range extends from sweeping campaigns and intimate domestic scenes to Reconstruction's contested aftermath, allowing dramatic episodes of loyalty, captivity, espionage, and social upheaval to stand beside reflective accounts of the conflict's causes and consequences. The collection's significance lies in its refusal of a single Civil War story: popular storytelling and historical interpretation illuminate one another across diverse regional, ideological, and stylistic registers. The contributing writers represent a broad nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literary culture shaped by the war's memory. Novelists, journalists, veterans, historians, regionalists, and writers of adventure fiction bring distinct relationships to Union, Confederate, borderland, and postwar experience. Together, these voices situate the volume within the traditions of Civil War romance, local-color writing, reconciliation literature, and the developing professional history of the United States. Their convergences and tensions reveal how race, citizenship, gender, military service, and sectional identity were repeatedly reimagined in print. This boxed set is especially recommended for readers seeking both an expansive introduction to Civil War literature and a comparative field of inquiry. Its many perspectives invite sustained attention to form, memory, and historical argument, making the volume valuable for students, researchers, and general readers alike. Read collectively, these works foster a revealing dialogue about how a nation narrates division, violence, and renewal.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length435 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 4, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Winning of Barbara Worth (Annotated)
2The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) (pt. 1)
3The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) (pt. 2)
4The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) (pt. 3)
5The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane)
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6The Veteran (Stephen Crane)
7An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
8A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce)
9Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)
10The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain)
11A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)
12The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
13The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
14The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
15The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
16The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
17The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
18The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
19The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
20The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
21The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
22The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
23The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
24The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 5)
25The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
26The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
27The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
28The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
29The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
30The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
31The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
32The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
33The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 5)
34The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
35The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
36The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
37The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
38The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
39The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
40The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
41The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
42The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
43The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
44The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
45The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
46The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 5)
47The Crisis (Winston Churchill)
48BOOK I. (pt. 1)
49BOOK I. (pt. 2)
50BOOK II. (pt. 1)
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