THE ITEM:
"THE FOREST AND THE FORD"
The Forest and the Fort is an historical novel by the American writer Hervey Allen based upon the Siege of Fort Pitt in 1763. The book was a New York Times bestseller in 1943.
Set in colonial Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it is the story of Salatheil Albine, who was captured by Native Americans as a child and raised by them, and who manages to get back there. In addition to the Siege of Fort Pitt, the plot involves the march to Bedford Village after the siege was raised.
The Forest and the Fort is Book One of a planned North American historical romance called Sylvania. The other two novels of this sequence are Bedford Village and Toward the Morning
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE WRITER:
HERVEY ALLEN
William Hervey Allen Jr. (December 8, 1889 – December 28, 1949) was an American author.
He wrote Toward the Flame (1926), a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war.
His first book, Wampum and Old Gold, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel (1926), a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
For a period of time, Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina. He also taught English at Charleston High School which at that time, although public, was only for boys. (The girls went to Memminger.) There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward.
From 1926 to 1927, he was on the faculty at Vassar University.
In the 1940s, he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer. Allen was a good friend of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and instigated her writing The Everglades: River of Grass. Allen was close friends with Robert Frost and Ogden Nash.
(WIKIPEDIA)
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SCHERZ PHOENIX BOOKS
VOLUME 28
FIRST EDITION
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THE PUBLISHER:
ALFRED SCHERZ PUBLISHERS
BERNE
THE YEAR:
1944
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SIZED:
CENTIMETERS: 11,5 X 18
PAGES: 384
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
REASONABLE TO GOOD
COVER:
RUBBED, DISCOLOURED AND WEARY, BUMPED ON CORNERS AND EDGES WITH SOME SMALL DAMAGES, SOME LIGHTLY CRACKED BENDS AND UNDEEP SCRATCHES
SPINE:
IDEM
PAGES:
DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
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