- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Tobacco road and God's little acre
- Creator:
- Arnold, Edwin T.
- Date of Original:
- 2002-07-16
- Subject:
- Fiction
Books--United States
Motion pictures--United States
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987--Film and video adaptations - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Erskine Caldwell novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. Although Erskine Caldwell wrote more than sixty books, twenty-five novels among them, he is best known for two works of long fiction, Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933). Tobacco Road was named one of the Modern Library's 100 best novels of the twentieth century, and God's Little Acre remains Caldwell's single most popular work, having sold more than 10 million copies. Along with the less well-known Journeyman (1935), these books make up a serio-comic trilogy of Georgia life in the first half of the twentieth century. They detail the ruination of the land, the growth of textile mills, and the abiding influence of fundamentalist religion in the South. These books thus present a radical contrast to the traditionally genteel and romantic views of the region, popularized most notably by Margaret Mitchell in Gone With the Wind (1936).
GSE identifier: SS8H8 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/tobacco-road-and-gods-little-acre/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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