The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection
Fiction, Memoirs, and Memory of America's Defining ConflictBy Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Joseph A. Altsheler, Winston Churchill, John William De Forest, G. A. Henty, María Ruiz de Burton, Mary Johnston, 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
The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection assembles fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, historical reflection, adventure, regional writing, and political commentary around the conflict that remade the United States. Its range extends from starkly modern examinations of combat and moral uncertainty to romance, battlefield chronicle, satire, and popular historical tale. Together, these works illuminate not only military campaigns but also divided loyalties, emancipation, reconstruction, memory, and the enduring mythology of the war. The contributors represent a broad cross-section of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary culture: realists, regionalists, veterans, journalists, historians, writers of juvenile adventure, and novelists shaped by sectional aftermath. Their differing social positions and ideological inheritances reveal how Civil War literature became a contested archive rather than a single national narrative. In dialogue, these voices connect the traditions of realism and local color with historical romance, Lost Cause memory, African American freedom struggles, and debates over citizenship and national reconciliation. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking to study the Civil War through multiple genres and perspectives in one capacious anthology. It offers an educational encounter with the conflict's literary afterlives, inviting comparison between heroic legend and traumatic witness, national history and local experience. Readers will find a rich forum for examining how literature preserves, challenges, and revises America's divided past.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Literary Classics
Length435 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 4, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
2The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection
3The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) (pt. 1)
4The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) (pt. 2)
5The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) (pt. 3)
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6The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane)
7The Veteran (Stephen Crane)
8An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
9A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce)
10Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)
11The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain)
12A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)
13The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
14The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
15The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
16The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
17The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
18The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
19The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
20The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
21The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
22The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
23The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
24The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
25The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 5)
26The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
27The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
28The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
29The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
30The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
31The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
32The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
33The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
34The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 5)
35The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
36The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
37The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
38The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
39The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
40The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
41The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
42The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
43The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 1)
44The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 2)
45The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 3)
46The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 4)
47The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) (pt. 5)
48The Crisis (Winston Churchill)
49BOOK I. (pt. 1)
50BOOK I. (pt. 2)
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