by John Jakes
bookshelves: autumn-2015, us-south-carolina, north-americas, published-1982, historical-fiction, civil-war-american, film-only, epic-proportions, war, slaves, military-manoeuvres, casual-violence, love, cotton-plantations, eng-county-durham-durham Read from October 31 to November 01, 2015 Descr...
Loved it so much! I am glad that I bought all 3 books in the series at once so I'll surely be able to read the next 2. Really makes me want to watch the mini-series again. I totally love the characters, even the ones I love to hate, Virgilia, Justin, Bent lol =)
North and South is the tale of two families, the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina. Orry Main and George Hazard meet in their first year at West Point Academy and begin a life-long friendship - although that friendship will be sorely tempted as the debate over the rights to own...
I thought it was really good. It was obviously written by a man and a lot more time was spent on history and action and not as much on character relationships but that would be my only criticism. On the other hand, Orry and George had a wonderful friendship and it was nice that this felt like the ...
Every time I go to Boothbay Harbor in Maine I hit the porch of the building next to the library. They have hundreds of books there, and the recommended donation is ten cents per book. At that price, I can buy all sorts of stuff that I'd never buy otherwise!One of the books I picked up last time was ...
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