Cease Firing

By Mary Johnston

Book Overview

"Mary Johnston's THE LONG ROLL and CEASE FIRING are quite possibly the best Civil War novels ever written..." Cease Firing picks up where Mary Johnston's previous book, The Long Roll leaves off. We... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185525X
• ISBN13: 9780801855252
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 457 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Volume 2 of a fine turn of the century Civil War nove

Volume Two takes the cast of characters to the West and keeps several in Virginia. Shorter than Volume One, Johnston's novel is just a good. In both books, the reader may see the tranistion in American Literature from the naturalistic and symbolic work of Crane to the short-sentenced, selective descriptions of Hemingway. As a turn of the century novel, there are romantic episodes that are suggestive of inner turmoils which can never be stated. The decline of the South's military and civilian moral is depicted and shows the region as exhausted and heroic. Volume Two does not stand alone but is a satisfactory working out of Volume One's personal relationships and a presentation of Johnston's retreat through the Carolinas