Know nothing

Mary Lee Settle

Original title: KNOW NOTHING (Beulah Quintet)

earliest edition we have, 1960 University of South Carolina Press, 1996 334 pages

Scribner signature edition

2nd of 4 Novels (1837-1861) Pre-Civil War. * Young love in a plantation family in the years before the Civil War. Second in a projected series of four novels based on the history of West Virginia. * Before the Civil War, Peregrine Catlett considers freeing his slaves but believes he can only retain his plantation by slave labour. His son, Johnny, returns to his father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of host...

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Know nothing edition · 1996 · University of South Carolina Press · 334 pages
Know nothing edition · 1988 · Scribner · 334 pages
KNOW NOTHING (Beulah Quintet) paperback · 1981 · Ballantine Books · 9780345293138
Know Nothing hardcover · 1960 · The Viking Press · 334 pages · 9789997530868
Know Nothing hardcover · 1960 · Viking Adult · 9780670414727

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