Cold Mountain | Cold Mountain

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Author: Charles Frazier
First Published: 1997
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The Civil War period
Setting: Virginia and North Carolina
Principal Characters: W. P. Inman, Ada Monroe, Monroe, Ruby Thewes, Stobrod Thewes, Swimmer, Solomon Veasey, Teague
Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Class consciousness, Ministry or ministers, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Mountains, Wounds or injuries, Herbs, Walking
Locales: Virginia, North Carolina

Charles Frazier’s hauntingly beautiful first novel, Cold Mountain, demonstrates once again that the Civil War is a source of inexhaustible fascination for Americans. In a carefully crafted, meticulously authentic tale, Frazier recounts the epic story of W. P. Inman, a Confederate war veteran who tries to make his way home to the western North Carolina mountains in the midst of the social chaos of the Civil War. Set mainly in North Carolina, Cold Mountain recounts Inman’s numerous adventures and close scrapes with death during his three-hundred- mile trek on foot from a...

Cold Mountain | Cold Mountain

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