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Raintree County

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Raintree County Information
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Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr.. It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle; however, her...


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Revisiting 'Raintree County.' ('Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County')
11/22/1993: 1,416 words, approx. 5 pages
Penguin reissues Ross Lockridge Jr.'s 1948 bestseller; Viking releases a biography by his son Raintree County was the publishing sensation of 1948. Even before its release, this sprawling, ambitious work had won a $150,000 literary prize (which included sale of the film...
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Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of 'Raintree County.' (book reviews)
02/14/1994: 311 words, approx. 1 pages
SHADE OF THE RAINTREE: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of 'Raintree County' Larry Lockridge. Viking, $24.95 (483p) ISBN 0-670-85440-9 Raintree County, a first novel published in 1948 by Houghton Mifflin, was a sensation. It won the $150,000...
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Court declines case involving painting
10/29/2007: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany.The painting, worth millions, may be among the estimated 600,000 works...
 


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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Leonard F. Manheim
8,131 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Manheim discusses the initial impact of Raintree County in popular and literary reading circles and attempts to account for the novel's disappearance into oblivion in subsequent years.
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Critical Essay by Donald J. Greiner
5,212 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Greiner argues that Lockridge's instant success and subsequent suicide are reflected in the experiences of his main character in Raintree County.
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Critical Essay by Park Dixon Goist
4,761 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Goist examines the tension between individual and community in Raintree County.
 


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