John Townsend Trowbridge's Books

A novelette in verse portrays an unhappy marriage between a dashing plantation owner and a penniless young charmer on the eve of the American Civil War.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

After the American Civil War, few southerners were able to publish books describing their defeated region. And journalists from outside the South were equally fatigued and quite ready to return to familiar surroundings; the thought of visiting and reporting on the war torn South was not a priority. Fortunately, an author from New England, John Townsend Trowbridge(1827-"1916) was persuaded to undertake the daunting mission of traveling through the unreconstructed South and to compile a journal of his adventures. The results of this intrepid reporter's long forgotten journey was a sizeable volume that may well be one of our greatest national

This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans—Northern, Southern, black, and white—responded to the changes unleashed by the surrender at Appomattox and the end of slavery. Showcasing an impressive collection of original documents, including government publications, newspaper articles, speeches, pamphlets, and personal letters, this book captures the voices of a broad range of Americans, including Civil War veterans, former slaveholders, Northerners living in the South, and African-American men and women who lived through one of the most trying, complex, and misunderstood periods of American history.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

If Indiana Jones had relied on trains . . .

To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.

Book's by John Townsend Trowbridge

Guy Vernon

Guy Vernon

The Pocket Rifle

The Pocket Rifle

The Tinkham Brothers' Tide-mill

The Tinkham Brothers' Tide-mill

Coupon Bonds. A Play in Four Acts

Coupon Bonds. A Play in Four Acts

The South

The South

A Just and Lasting Peace

A Just and Lasting Peace

A Short Course in Literature

A Short Course in Literature

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs

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