
The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection
Forty Civil War Tales of Battle, Emancipation, Memory, and Union and Confederate LivesBy Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Randall Parrish, George Washington Cable, John Esten Cooke, Edward Robins, John William De Forest, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Johnston, Winston Churchill, Edward Everett Hale, Charles King, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, Stephen Crane, Charles Carleton Coffin, James Ford Rhodes, John McElroy, Lucy Foster Madison, Harry Hazelton, Henry F. Keenan, George W. Peck, John R. Musick, Robert W. Chambers, Joseph A. Altsheler, G. A. Henty, B. K. Benson, W. H. Shelton, Byron A. Dunn, Ellen Glasgow, María Ruiz de Burton, Thomas Dixon Jr.Length436h 2m
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The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection assembles an expansive literary archive of the American Civil War and its contested afterlives. Across historical romance, adventure fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, juvenile literature, satire, regional realism, political commentary, and speculative imagination, the volume maps war as battlefield event, domestic crisis, and enduring cultural memory. Its striking range includes tales of espionage, captivity, military command, Reconstruction, sectional loyalty, and fractured households, revealing both the imaginative vitality and ideological tensions of Civil War writing. The contributors form a notably heterogeneous transatlantic and American chorus: celebrated realists and humorists appear alongside journalists, veterans, popular historians, regional novelists, writers of children's fiction, and authors associated with Southern memorial culture. Their varied positions—Northern and Southern, Unionist and Confederate-sympathetic, retrospective and near-contemporary—place the collection in dialogue with realism, romance, Reconstruction-era debate, and the Lost Cause tradition. Read together, these voices demonstrate how fiction and popular narrative helped shape public understandings of emancipation, nationalism, race, sacrifice, and reunion. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking to encounter the Civil War not as a single story but as a field of competing narratives and forms. It invites comparative study of literary style, historical representation, and cultural memory, while its breadth makes it an illuminating resource for students, scholars, and general readers. The dialogue among its works encourages careful attention to both their narrative power and their political assumptions.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length436 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1James Norman Hall - Ultimate Collection
2The Warfare of Divided Allegiances: Civil War Collection
3The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
4CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER II
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6CHAPTER III
7CHAPTER IV
8CHAPTER V
9CHAPTER VI
10CHAPTER VII
11CHAPTER VIII
12CHAPTER IX
13CHAPTER X
14CHAPTER XI
15CHAPTER XII
16CHAPTER XIII
17CHAPTER XIV
18CHAPTER XV
19CHAPTER XVI
20CHAPTER XVII
21CHAPTER XVIII
22CHAPTER XIX
23CHAPTER XX
24CHAPTER XXI
25CHAPTER XXII
26CHAPTER XXIII
27CHAPTER XXIV
28The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane)
29The Veteran (Stephen Crane)
30An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
31A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce)
32Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)
33The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain)
34A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)
35The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler)
36CHAPTER II A COURIER TO THE SOUTH
37CHAPTER III THE HEART OF REBELLION
38CHAPTER IV THE FIRST CAPITAL
39CHAPTER V THE NEW PRESIDENT
40CHAPTER VI SUMTER
41CHAPTER VII THE HOMECOMING
42CHAPTER VIII THE FIGHT FOR A STATE
43CHAPTER IX THE RIVER JOURNEY
44CHAPTER X OVER THE MOUNTAINS
45CHAPTER XI IN VIRGINIA
46CHAPTER XII THE FIGHT FOR THE FORT
47CHAPTER XIII THE SEEKER FOR HELP
48CHAPTER XIV IN WASHINGTON
49CHAPTER XV BATTLE'S EVE
50CHAPTER XVI BULL RUN