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Title: Drums by James Boyd, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0-689-80176-9 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 30 October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tory Gentleman Finds Peace in Time of War
Comment: Drums by Boyd has been called the best novel ever written about the Revolutionary War. Narrated from the viewpoint of a North Carolina Tory gentleman's adolescent son, it's unique outlook soon draws the reader into the drama of colonial unrest and the emotional battle men fought within themselves whether to cede from England or not. However, this is no psychological melodrama. Some of the most superb scenes in the novel are the depictions of a local horse race and a John Paul Jones sea battle. So why isn't Drums read more widely? It would seem Boyd's own excellent writing has gotten him into trouble for today's reader. Not only are his fight scenes realistic, but his cooly penetrating description of the early entrenchment of southern slavery, with all crudities of language and social class structure, is too graphic for our modern tastes. In short, he uses the "N" word too liberally. Reading this novel reminded me of reading HUCKLEBERRY FINN. It also reminded me of Olasky's FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY AND VIRTUE. Personally, I think it should be put back on high school reading lists. I think it would help in revealing why slavery was not addressed at the time of the Revolution as well as why it took a war to settle the matter.
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Title: Michael Strogoff: A Courier of the Czar (Scribner Illustrated Classic) by Jules Verne, N.C. Wyeth ISBN: 0689810962 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth ISBN: 0684188775 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0688078176 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 20 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter, Nora A. Smith, Date Douglas Wiggin, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 068419340X Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 30 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: David Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad by Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0684197367 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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