AETERNUS SERIES
World Literature and Elemental Conflict
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Kentucky, 1782. A party of travelers enters a forest haunted by the name Jibbenainosay. Their guide, Nathan Slaughter, is a Quaker who appears to reject violence; the dangers around him make that conviction increasingly difficult to read. Bird turns a frontier adventure into a story of hidden identity and vengeance.
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In Pennsylvania, the Revolution has left loyalties divided and old injuries unsettled. The return of a dispossessed family draws love, inheritance and revenge into the same conflict. A mysterious stranger and the outlaw reputation of the Hawks turn a quiet valley into a place where every allegiance has a price.
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The Great Plains in 1846: emigrant trains, buffalo hunts, trading posts, and weeks in an Oglala camp. Parkman’s first book records a journey into a West still being travelled and contested.
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Virginia in the 1790s: a young stranger rides into the settled world of the planter aristocracy, while in the mountains and canebrakes of Kentucky the Harpe brothers make the borderlands a place where no traveller rides safe. Hall sets a romance of planters and pioneers against the darkest legend of the Kentucky frontier.
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Published in 1799, Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker is one of the formative works of American Gothic fiction.
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