Oxford American Most Underrated Southern Books

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Oxford American's poll on the best southern books also asked its judges to name the most underrated southern books. A sampling, with judges' comments, was published in the August 2009 issue of Oxford mehr anzeigen American, and the full list in its website. weniger anzeigen
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Ein Todesfall in der Familie: Roman (1957) von James Agee
Wildes Leben, Roman, aus dem Amerikanischen von Otto Wilck (1956) von Nelson Algren
The Gay Place (1961) von Billy Lee Brammer
Lovers of Louisiana (To-Day) (1988) von George Washington Cable
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (1962) von Harry M. Caudill
It Is Time, Lord (Voices of the South) (1963) von Fred Chappell
Go Down, Moses (1942) von William Faulkner
Sartoris (1929) von William Faulkner
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes) (1948) von Douglas Southall Freeman
Of Love and Dust (1967) von Ernest J. Gaines
The Sheltered Life (1932) von Ellen Glasgow
The Keepers of the House (1964) von Shirley Ann Grau
The Recording Angel (1912) von Corra Harris
Youngblood (1982) von John Oliver Killens
Wer die Nachtigall stört (1960) von Harper Lee
To Make My Bread (1932) von Grace Lumpkin
Frankie (1946) von Carson McCullers
Vom Winde verweht (1936) von Margaret Mitchell
Erwachen in Mississippi. Eine Autobiographie (1968) von Anne Moody
The Great Big Doorstep (Lost American fiction) (1979) von E. P. O'Donnell
Hold Autumn in Your Hand (1941) von George Sessions Perry
Die mutige Mattie (1968) von Charles Portis
Cross Creek (1942) von Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Time of Man: A Novel (1926) von Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The Wave (Voices of the South) (1929) von Evelyn Scott
Killers of the Dream (1949) von Lillian Smith
River of Earth (1940) von James Still
Flieht wie ein Vogel auf eure Berge (1966) von Margaret Walker
The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought (1968) von Richard M. Weaver
Stoner (1965) von John Williams
Negroes With Guns (1962) von Robert F. Williams
Das bonbonfarbene tangerinrot-gespritzte Stromlinienbaby (1965) von Tom Wolfe

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