Deliverance

Christopher Blake should have been born into a world of wealth and privilege on his family's tobacco plantation. The Civil War and the conniving Bill Fletcher stole that world away. Now the Blakes must suffer in genteel poverty while Christopher slowly (perhaps too slowly) exacts his revenge. The boo......more

There is a lot of moonlight-and-magnolia silliness in this. Many of the characters are stereotypes. And the dialects aren't right. But the story does draw in the reader (this one at least), and the writing is often beautiful. "Nature was alive again, and he felt vaguely that in the resurrection surro......more

I sometimes had to remind myself that this book was written in 1904. The story and the characters are still alive after almost 120 years. Fans of historical fiction/romance should enjoy this one. It is the real thing that many modern writers are trying to recreate.......more

I really liked this story of vengeance and its cost to your soul. It's set in the South in the late 1800's. Young Christopher Blake sets out to ruin a man who cheated his family and he does it by ruining the man's grandson. For a book published in 1904, it was remarkably free of stereotypes. The min......more

I don't remember it as well as I'd like, but I recall being impressed by Glasgow's many-sided look at the effects of Reconstruction on a small town in the South; there's poor people who were once rich, rich people who were once poor, and slaves who are now free, all tangled up with each other. I hop......more