Shelby Foote

Follows the course of the war from 1862 to 1864, discusses the strategies of both sides in major battles, and assesses the performance of the Union generals

The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville

This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set by his monumental history, conveying both the bloody choreography of two armies and the movements of the combatants' hearts and minds.

A Novel

Shiloh

Recreates the Battle of Gettysburg from both the Confederate and Union perspectives

The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

Stars in Their Courses

The Civil War, Vol. 1

Fort Sumter to Perryville

The Civil War a Narrative

Volume three of a three volume narrative history of the battles, characters and situations during the last years of the Civil War.

Red River to Appomattox

The Civil War, a Narrative

The Civil War, a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian

Walker Percy

Collected letters offer a glimpse into a lifelong friendship--recording ambitions, artistic doubts, and personal problems

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy

Set in Mississippi during the Great Depression, this novel tells the story of two families--the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses--and the subtle disintegration of the Northern fortune hunter who joins them together

Love in a Dry Season

A collection of stories of the Civil War includes works by Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Eudora Welty

Chickamauga, and Other Civil War Stories

Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. Includes maps throughout. "This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World " Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." —Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times, they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." —The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." —Walter Mills

Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

The Civil War: A Narrative

In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are planning to capitalize on the confrontation between the races by kidnapping the grandson of a wealthy black entrepreneur and pinning the crime on white supremacists. The problem is that Podjo, Rufus, and Reeny have only an amateur's understanding of what a kidnapping entails -- and a total, terrifying incomprehension of their victims. In September September a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in the streets of the contemporary South. By turns wryly comic, ribald, and chilling, Shelby Foote's novel is at once a convincing thriller and a powerful tragicomedy of race. September September has been adapted by Larry McMurtry for the Turner Network Television film Memphis, starring Cybill Shepherd.

September, September

Tournament is Shelby Foote's first novel, published originally by Dial Press in 1949. Summa's reprint includes an exclusive preface by the author concerning his literary deveopment and the genesis of Tournament and an introduction by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., the dean of American literature criticism. Tournament is a brilliant novel of the post-Civil War South, replete with Proustian and Faulknerian overtones. Many of the characters that appear in subsequent novels by Shelby Foote come onto the scene for the first time in this work. It is a must acquisition for every fan of Shelby Foote--From item description.

Tournament

A magnificently orchestrated novel of two Depression-era Mississippi families which is "as modern as today's newpaper, as old as Mosaic law" (The New York Times) and renders the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.

The Civil War : A Narrative

The Civil War, Vol. 3

Anton Chekhov

Tells the stories of a doubting writer, the unexpected results of a love affair, and everyday people facing life's surprises.

Later Short Stories, 1888-1903

Interviews spanning thirty-seven years of the American author's career cover his feelings on the art of writing, life in the South, writers who have influenced him, and the Civil War

Conversations with Shelby Foote

Constance Garnett

With the republication of Longer Stories from the Last Decade, the Modern Library has an original three-volume edition of 123 of Chekhov's stories presented in the translations by Constance Garnett. The stories have been selected by the novelist, historian, and Russian literature expert Shelby Foote, who has provided an introduction to the books in the series. Longer Stories from the Last Decade includes eleven works written in roughly the last ten years of the writer's life: "Three Years,""The Duel,""Ward No. 6,""The Black Monk,""An Anonymous Story,""A Woman's Kingdom,""The Wife'""In the Ravine,""Peasants,""The Murder," and "My Life." As Shelby Foote writes, this volume of stories "calls attention to a broader and deeper talent than has generally been recognized, either by critics or the reading public, down the years." Chekhov remains indispensable.

Longer Stories from the Last Decade

A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.

Shelby Foote

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