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Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice. For his service in the king's army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy's father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana. As the family ventures down the Mississippi to make a new home in the wilderness, Judith show more meets Philip Larne, an adventurer who travels in the finest clothes Judith has ever seen. He is a rogue, a killer, and a thief - and the first thing he steals is Judith's heart. Three thousand acres of untamed jungle, overrun with jaguars, Indians, and pirates, wait for Philip in Louisiana. He and Judith will struggle with their stormy marriage and the challenges of the American Revolution as they strive to build an empire for future generations. This is the first novel in Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, which also includes The Handsome Road and This Side of Glory. show lessTags
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I first read this book as a teenager in high school. My love of historic fiction began with Gwen Bristow's books. They are like old friends.
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- Canonical title
- Deep Summer
- Original title
- Deep Summer
- Original publication date
- 1937
- First words*
- Die späte Abendsonne warf seidigen Glanz auf die Wellen des Flusses.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Judith lächelte in ruhiger Siegesgewissheit, und verwundert erkannte sie, dass sie erst jetzt, nachdem die Schlüsselgewalt in andere Hände übergegangen war, Frieden gewonnen hatte.
- Original language*
- Amerikanisch
- Disambiguation notice*
- Midzomer en in het Engels Deepsummer, mag niet samengevoegd worden met de volgende trilogiën: Als de katoen rijpt...Trilogie, Plantation Trilogy, Louisiana Trilogie
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PZ3 .B7767 .D — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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