Fiction on the corruption following the Civil War abounds. It ranges in quality from Margaret Mitchell's extraordinarily popular Gone with the Wind (1936) to Faulkner's portraits of the Compson, Sartoris, Snopes, Stevens, and Sutpen clans in his short stories and novels. L'Amour's fiction does not reach the level of Margaret Mitchell's nor even approach that of Faulkner in intellectual depth, emotional power, and artistry. There are, nevertheless, similarities. All are interested.....
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