Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von In den Sechzigern
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love American history and realistic fiction that sees the Civil War from the village, and anyone drawn to families, divided loyalties and the Northern home front.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
In the Sixties is Harold Frederic's fiction of the American Civil War as it was lived far from the battlefield. Frederic grew up in Utica, in upstate New York, in the years of the war. He later worked as a newspaperman and made his name as a writer of realistic fiction about small-town America.
This book turns away from the generals and the great battles. It looks at farms, villages and families in the North, where the war arrived as newspaper reports, recruiting drives, quarrels over politics and letters from the front. You get a close, unsentimental picture of ordinary people who had to decide where they stood. Let us begin with the place where it all happens.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1The war seen from a Northern villageFree
- 2Loyalty is not the same for everyone
- 3War changes homes and daily life
- 4A plain, ironic, realistic way of telling
Punkt 1 von 4
The war seen from a Northern village
Frederic sets his wartime fiction in the farm country of upstate New York, a region he knew from childhood. The land is settled and orderly, with farms, churches, country roads and small market towns. The war is far away, yet it reaches every household.
The news comes slowly and unevenly. Neighbors gather to hear the papers read and argue over what the latest report means. A battle in Virginia or Tennessee changes the mood of a whole village within days.
By keeping to this setting, Frederic shows something that history books often skip. For most Northerners the war was a long season of waiting, worry and gossip. The people in these pages feel that strain every day, and the reader comes to feel it with them.
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Questions about In den Sechzigern
What is In the Sixties by Harold Frederic about?
It is Civil War fiction about the Northern home front. Instead of battles, it follows families and neighbors in upstate New York as they face enlistment, political division, waiting and loss during the war.
Who was Harold Frederic?
Harold Frederic was an American journalist and novelist from Utica, New York. He wrote realistic fiction about small-town life and worked as a London correspondent for the New York Times. He died in 1898.
What is a Copperhead in Civil War history?
A Copperhead was a Northern Democrat who opposed the Civil War and the Lincoln government, often favoring a negotiated peace. Opponents used the name as an insult. Frederic's wartime fiction draws on this conflict.
Is In the Sixties hard to read?
No. The prose is clear and direct, shaped by Frederic's newspaper background. The stories are about familiar things like family, neighbors and conscience.
Is In the Sixties worth reading today?
Yes, if you want to see how the Civil War divided ordinary communities. It offers a realistic, unsentimental picture of the home front and shows the author's sharp eye for small-town America.