Arouse and Beware A Novel of Escape During the Civil War - MacKinlay Kantor - Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville
This is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners.
Two Yankee soldiers escape from Belle Island, the Confederate Prison, in 1864. As they make their way northward to the Union lines on the Rapidan they are joined by a woman who is fleeing from Richmond. The hazards of their painful flight are tremendous as they travel by night on roads as ominous as the incredible future awaiting them.
Starvation and feasting, the swift beat of love, the primitive encounter, the hot cry of triumph—these elements are combined in this bold and valiant tale of sacrifice and high devotion.
Arouse and Beware, first published in 1936, was widely praised by the critics and became a best seller. Now with the success of MacKinlay Kantor's great novel, Andersonville, and the enormous interest in the Civil War period, it is being re-issued again to be enjoyed by a whole new generation of readers.
Praise from the Critics
"As an objective narrative, as an adventure story, Arouse and Beware is excellent."—N. Y. Times
"This is a saga—a heroic narrative. It puts flesh and blood into tradition."—Henry Seidel Canby, Book-of-the-Month Club News
"For all its subtle characterization, this is a fast-moving novel into whose torrent the reader is swept irresistibly."—Boston Transcript
"When you have read his book you feel that you know what it was like to sneak through the fields of Virginia, in foggy March nights, with every sound an enemy, when Lee and Grant were making history."—Lewis Gannett
"A book of stark drama, distinction of style, imaginative power . . . Mr. Kantor has written a book taut with two primitive passions—the desire to live, and the desire to love. It is one of the most powerful recent works in imaginative romance."—Springfield Republican
This is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners.
Two Yankee soldiers escape from Belle Island, the Confederate Prison, in 1864. As they make their way northward to the Union lines on the Rapidan they are joined by a woman who is fleeing from Richmond. The hazards of their painful flight are tremendous as they travel by night on roads as ominous as the incredible future awaiting them.
Starvation and feasting, the swift beat of love, the primitive encounter, the hot cry of triumph—these elements are combined in this bold and valiant tale of sacrifice and high devotion.
Arouse and Beware, first published in 1936, was widely praised by the critics and became a best seller. Now with the success of MacKinlay Kantor's great novel, Andersonville, and the enormous interest in the Civil War period, it is being re-issued again to be enjoyed by a whole new generation of readers.
Praise from the Critics
"As an objective narrative, as an adventure story, Arouse and Beware is excellent."—N. Y. Times
"This is a saga—a heroic narrative. It puts flesh and blood into tradition."—Henry Seidel Canby, Book-of-the-Month Club News
"For all its subtle characterization, this is a fast-moving novel into whose torrent the reader is swept irresistibly."—Boston Transcript
"When you have read his book you feel that you know what it was like to sneak through the fields of Virginia, in foggy March nights, with every sound an enemy, when Lee and Grant were making history."—Lewis Gannett
"A book of stark drama, distinction of style, imaginative power . . . Mr. Kantor has written a book taut with two primitive passions—the desire to live, and the desire to love. It is one of the most powerful recent works in imaginative romance."—Springfield Republican
