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Caldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 short stories, twelve nonfiction collections, two autobiographies, and two books for young readers. He also edited the influential American Folkways series , a 28-volume series of books about different regions of the United States.
Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional family of Georgia sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Although often portrayed as a work of social realism, the novel contains many elements of black comedy and sensationalism which made it a subject of controversy
- J. J. Kirkland, Erskine Preston Caldwell
- 1932
11. Jan. 2024 · Explore the list of the ten best Erskine Caldwell books, a short story phenom and novelist who wrote about racism, poverty, and social issues in the American South. Learn about his life, his works, and his themes in this guide.
Erskine Caldwell has 274 books on Goodreads with 48507 ratings. Erskine Caldwell’s most popular book is Tobacco Road.
Erskine Preston Caldwell war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Als literarisch bedeutsam gilt insbesondere Caldwells Frühwerk. Hohe Auflagen erzielte Gottes kleiner Acker und Die Tabakstraße. Letztgenannter Roman handelt in grotesk-tragischer Weise vom Leben einer völlig verarmten Pächterfamilie im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat ...
The tobacco road that passes by the rural Georgia home of Jeeter Lester and his family, in Erskine Caldwell’s 1932 novel Tobacco Road, may speak to the prosperous colonial history of tobacco farming. But by the early-20th-century setting of this novel, the tobacco market has long since gone bust, and the cotton market seems likely to follow ...
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7. Apr. 2024 · Erskine Caldwell was an American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the American South mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy. His works achieved a worldwide readership and were particularly esteemed in France and the Soviet Union. Caldwell’s father was a home.
