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The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South

By Thomas Dixon

Book information

Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2004
ISBN
0813191173, 9780813191171, 9780813172101
LCC
PS3507.I93 S56 2004
Open Library ID
OL3295426M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1350474 bytes)
Pages
352\350
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Today, Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith’s groundbreaking and still-controversial film The Birth of a Nation. It was The Sins of the Father, however, that Dixon regarded as the most aesthetically satisfying child of his Ku Klux Klan saga. In this novel he telescopes the trilogy’s sprawling historical canvas into one tightly scripted narrative. A best-seller in 1912, the novel’s themes of interracial sex and incest outraged many upon its publication. Nearly a century later, Dixon’s work is undergoing a critical reevaluation. A new introduction by Steven Weisenburger lends a valuable historical and critical perspective to this important and divisive classic of American literature.

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