The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters

Conflict between Walter Mabaso, a new arrival in Nelstroom, Transvaal, and Hendrik Du Toit, the location superintendent in charge of the Black residents, stirs up the whole town

"An editor does not come across such talent more than five or six times in his life...I really do not believe I ever saw a war piece that excelled it, not forgetting Tolstoi."--Maxwell Perkins

"Such a picture of the Civil War has not heretofore been painted. A fantastic and utterly original book." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"A view of the Civil War worth putting beside Brady's photographs, Grant's memoirs, and The Red Badge of Courage."--The New Republic

"One of the richest and most pungent novels of the decade." --Sinclair Lewis

"It has been some time since we have had an American novelist gifted with such power and imagination. Pennell's work will be a permanent acquisition to world literature, a product as distinctly American and as apart from the literary language of other nations as America itself is from the European scene." --Saturday Review of Literature