The Battle Ground
by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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About This Book
1902. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942. The Battle Ground is the earliest of a series of novels which Glasgow hoped might become in time a complete social history of Virginia since the Civil War.
Chapters (49)
- THE BATTLE GROUND
- To The Beloved Memory of My Mother
- BOOK FIRST — GOLDEN YEARS
- I. — “DE HINE FOOT ER A HE FRAWG”
- II. — AT THE FULL OF THE MOON
- III. — THE COMING OF THE BOY
- IV — A HOUSE WITH AN OPEN DOOR
- V. — THE SCHOOL FOR GENTLEMEN
- VI. — COLLEGE DAYS
- “DANDRIDGE MONTJOY.”
- “DAN.”
- “D.”
- BOOK SECOND — YOUNG BLOOD
- I. — THE MAJOR'S CHRISTMAS
- II. — BETTY DREAMS BY THE FIRE
- III. — DAN AND BETTY
- IV — LOVE IN A MAZE
- V. — THE MAJOR LOSES HIS TEMPER
- VI. — THE MEETING IN THE TURNPIKE
- VII. — IF THIS BE LOVE
- VIII. — BETTY'S UNBELIEF
- IX. — THE MONTJOY BLOOD
- X. — THE ROAD AT MIDNIGHT
- XI. — AT MERRY OAKS TAVERN
- XII. — THE NIGHT OF FEAR
- XIII. — CRABBED AGE AND CALLOW YOUTH
- XIV. — THE HUSH BEFORE THE STORM
- BOOK THIRD — THE SCHOOL OF WAR
- I. — HOW MERRY GENTLEMEN WENT TO WAR
- II. — THE DAY'S MARCH
- III. — THE REIGN OF THE BRUTE
- IV. — AFTER THE BATTLE
- V. — THE WOMAN'S PART
- VI. — ON THE ROAD TO ROMNEY
- VII. — “I WAIT MY TIME”
- VIII. — THE ALTAR OF THE WAR GOD
- IX. — THE MONTJOY BLOOD AGAIN
- BOOK FOURTH — THE RETURN OF THE VANQUISHED
- I. — THE RAGGED ARMY
- II. — A STRAGGLER FROM THE RANKS
- III. — THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
- IV. — IN THE SILENCE OF THE GUNS
- V. — “THE PLACE THEREOF”
- VI. — THE PEACEFUL SIDE OF WAR
- VII. — THE SILENT BATTLE
- VIII. — THE LAST STAND
- IX. — IN THE HOUR OF DEFEAT
- X. — ON THE MARCH AGAIN
- XI. — THE RETURN
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