A Great American Novel of the Civil War.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
A Tale of North and South.
BY MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS,
Author of The Gray House of the Quarries, etc.
12mo, doth, decorative, with six full-page illustrations by H. T. Carpenter. $1.50
A really great American novel of the Civil War, which will appeal with equal force to-day to the Southern as well as to the Northern reader. The title is, of course, suggested by Mrs. Howe’s line,—
“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”
The story is developed from the fortunes, amid the vicissitudes of war, of an old New Jersey family, one son of which had settled in Virginia, becoming a general in Lee’s army. There is little fighting and no cheap heroics in the book, but it gives a clearer picture and a more intimate and impressive understanding of what the great struggle really meant to Unionist and to Confederate alike than many a military history.