The Battle Ground

The Battle Ground is a novel by Ellen Glasgow, first published in 1902. Set in Virginia during the Reconstruction Era, the story follows the lives of two families, the Careys and the Rands, who are divided by their political views and social status. The Careys are wealthy plantation owners who have lost their fortune, while the Rands are poor but politically powerful. The novel explores themes of class, race, and gender, as well as the impact of the Civil War on Southern society. The main character, Major Carely, is a former Confederate officer who struggles to adapt to the changes brought about by Reconstruction. He is torn between his loyalty to his former way of life and his desire to move forward and embrace the new opportunities that are available to him. The novel is a powerful portrait of a society in transition, and a meditation on the nature of change and its impact on individuals and communities.1902. Glasgow�������s realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942. The Battle Ground is the earliest of a series of novels which Glasgow hoped might become in time a complete social history of Virginia since the Civil War. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.