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Week of July 23, 1934

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I, CLAUDIUS
Robert Graves
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I, CLAUDIUS

by Robert Graves · Smith & Haas

1 wks at #1 · 7 on list

Reconstructing grandeur, folly, & fantastic sensuality of Imperial Rome.

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LAMB IN HIS BOSOM
Caroline Miller
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LAMB IN HIS BOSOM

by Caroline Miller · Harper

10 wks on list

This 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner tells the story of a pair of young newlyweds in antebellum rural Georgia. In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was the first novel by a Georgia author to win a Pulitzer, soon followed by Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in 1937. In fact, Lamb was largely responsible for the discovery of Gone With the Wind; after reading Miller's novel, Macmillan editor Harold S. Latham sought other southern novels and authors, and found Margaret Mitchell. Caroline Miller was fascinated by the other Old South-not the romantic inhabitants of Gone With the Wind, but rather the poor people of the south Georgia backwoods, who never owned a slave or planned to fight a war. The story of Cean and Lonzo, a young couple who begin their married lives two decades before the Civil War, Lamb in His Bosom is a fascinating account of social customs and material realities among settlers of the Georgia frontier. At the same time, Lamb in His Bosom transcends regional history as Miller's quietly lyrical prose style pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived close to nature-the nature outside her and the nature within.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.