Posts Categorized: Literary Fiction

The Ward Greene Reader By

The Ward Greene Reader Four highly-acclaimed, literary masterpieces, some of them out of print for over 70 years, now collected for the first time on one ebook volume.

CORA POTTS * RIDE THE NIGHTMARE * DESIRE IN THE DEEP SOUTH * ROUTE 28

“For years, Ward Greene has been doing amazing things with words. He has depicted the heights and depths of human emotion with uncanny skill.” Tucson Citizen

Bold Water By

Bold Water The only novel by the beloved, and influential, Millikin University English Department chairperson and professor Davida McCaslin, back in print for the first time in 70 years. It's the deeply-felt, intimate saga of Bold Water, a town on the Maine coast, and the turbulent, storm-tossed lives of the people who live there, all deeply rooted in the history and beauty of the land.

"A beautiful story of Maine. The book has color, excitement and reality." Decatur Daily Review

"Her writing is marked by a delicate quality," Decatur Herald & Review

Ride the Nightmare By

Ride the Nightmare Southerner Jake Perry is a successful, married comicbook artist living the good life in New York in the 1930s. But, bored and restless, he falls under the sway of Bellerophon Cawdor, a 'Bohemian love-cultist' in Greenwich Village, and the sadistic, erotic world he offered. Jake can't let go, pulling his dutiful high-society wife, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, into his tragic obsession with forbidden pleasures, trapping them both in a whirlpool that could destroy their lives.

Desire in the Deep South By

Desire in the Deep South Ward Greene's blistering third novel, once again set in his fictional Georgia town of Corinth, follows the booze-soaked loves, tragedies, and betrayals of people caught in the clash between old traditions and the new morality of the Jazz Age. It's a passionate conflict sparked by the return of local girl Eloise King after a decade away in New York...bringing with her the Bohemian ideals of Greenwich Village. The characters include an Italian bootlegger,  a sex-starved librarian, a philandering husband, a conniving actress attracted to married men, and the return of Cora Potts, the colorful heroine of Greene's first book.

Cora Potts By

Cora Potts A long-lost literary classic...hailed by the Raleigh News & Observer as  "a powerful, arresting, unforgettable book"... back in print for the first time in 70 years.

Cora Potts was born "poor white trash" in a small town in the deep south. But she uses her beauty, cunning, ambition and pure ruthlessness to escape her destiny, to survive against adversity, and rise from poverty to wealth, in a uniquely American success story that's shocking in its raw, naked intensity.