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John Jakes (1932–2023)

Autor(a) de North and South

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About the Author

John Jakes was born in Chicago in 1932. He studied acting at Northwestern University, where he began writing professionally during his freshman year. Later he enrolled in a creative writing program at DePauw University and received a master's degree in American literature from Ohio State mostrar mais University. Early in his career Jakes wrote copy for a pharmaceutical company and various ad agencies, and authored dozens of short stories encompassing western, mystery and science fiction themes. In March 1973, Jakes commenced work on The Kent Family Chronicles, a multi-volume set portraying American history through the lives of a fictional family. Later works include North and South (1982), California Gold (1989), Homeland (1993), and American Dreams. Six of his major novels have been filmed as television miniseries, and North and South remains one of the highest rated miniseries in the history of television. Jakes is actively involved in the adaptation of North and South for the Broadway stage. John Jakes has been hailed as the godfather of the historical novel, and America's history teacher. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) John William Jakes (b. 1932), American author of fantasy, science fiction, westerns, and historical fiction. Although Jakes uses the name Alan Payne, there are other authors in LT named Alan Payne. Please do not combine them.

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Obras por John Jakes

North and South (1982) 2,102 exemplares
Love and War (1984) 1,417 exemplares
Heaven and Hell (1987) 1,275 exemplares
The Bastard (1974) 1,189 exemplares
The Rebels (1975) 903 exemplares
The Seekers (1975) 833 exemplares
The Furies (1976) 793 exemplares
The Titans (1976) 749 exemplares
The Warriors (1977) 733 exemplares
The Lawless (1978) 685 exemplares
The Americans (1979) 676 exemplares
Homeland (1993) 605 exemplares
Charleston (2002) 570 exemplares
California Gold (1989) 565 exemplares
On Secret Service (2000) 489 exemplares
Savannah or A Gift For Mr Lincoln (2004) 456 exemplares
Susanna of the Alamo: A True Story (1986) 423 exemplares
American Dreams (1997) 399 exemplares
The Gods of Newport (2006) 344 exemplares
Mention My Name in Atlantis (1972) 170 exemplares
When the Star Kings Die (1967) 162 exemplares
Brak the Barbarian (1968) 154 exemplares
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Editor; Contribuidor — 104 exemplares
Excalibur! (1980) 99 exemplares
The Planet Wizard (1969) 93 exemplares
The Star Virus / Mask of Chaos (1970) — Autor — 74 exemplares
The Asylum World (1969) 66 exemplares
Brak: When The Idols Walked (1978) 62 exemplares
Six-Gun Planet (1970) — Autor — 61 exemplares
The Bold Frontier (2001) 60 exemplares
Secrets of Stardeep (1969) 59 exemplares
Best of John Jakes (1977) 53 exemplares
Witch of the Dark Gate (1972) 51 exemplares
Time Gate (1972) 49 exemplares
The Last Magicians (1969) 44 exemplares
Black in Time (1970) 44 exemplares
The Fortunes of Brak (1980) 40 exemplares
On Wheels (1973) 35 exemplares
Master of the Dark Gate (1970) 26 exemplares
The Hybrid (1969) 25 exemplares
I, Barbarian (1780) 24 exemplares
The Spider Chronicles (2007) 20 exemplares
The Funeral of Tanner Moody (2004) 18 exemplares
New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories (1994) — Editor; Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Mohawk; the life of Joseph Brant (1969) 16 exemplares
Monte Cristo #99 (1970) 16 exemplares
Arena (1963) 15 exemplares
Tonight We Steal the Stars (1969) 14 exemplares
Kings Crusader (1977) 14 exemplares
Johnny Havoc meets Zelda (1962) 13 exemplares
Johnny Havoc (1960) 12 exemplares
Veils of Salome (1962) 8 exemplares
Mask of Chaos (1970) 7 exemplares
Bastard Photonovel (1980) 7 exemplares
Heaven and Hell, Part 1 of 2 (1990) 7 exemplares
California Gold; Vol 2 (1989) 7 exemplares
Making It Big (1968) 7 exemplares
Láska a válka, 1. díl (1992) 6 exemplares
Make Mine Mavis (1961) — Autor — 6 exemplares
Love And War Part 1 Of 2 (1994) 5 exemplares
Great Women Reporters (1969) 5 exemplares
California Gold; Vol 1 (1989) 5 exemplares
The Seventh Man (1981) 4 exemplares
Wear a Fast Gun (1956) 4 exemplares
Give Me This Woman (1962) — Autor — 4 exemplares
The Man From Cannae (1963) 4 exemplares
Storm in a Bottle (Novella) (1977) 4 exemplares
Sever a Jih, 2. díl (1992) 4 exemplares
The Americans Part 1 Of 2 (1993) 4 exemplares
Homeland Part 1 Of 2 (1993) 4 exemplares
And So to Bed (1962) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Let Her Kill Herself 3 exemplares
A Night for Treason (1978) 3 exemplares
Sir Scoundrel (1962) 3 exemplares
Ghoul's Garden (Novelette) (1973) 3 exemplares
Kærlighed og krig (1988) 2 exemplares
Kadetterne (1987) 2 exemplares
De overlevenden (1992) 2 exemplares
For I am a jealous people (1972) 2 exemplares
Heaven and Hell, Part 2 of 2 (1990) 2 exemplares
Lys & skygge [Bind] 3 (1995) 2 exemplares
Great war correspondents (1967) 2 exemplares
Night for Treason (1982) 2 exemplares
Machine 2 exemplares
Rocket Stories, April 1953 (1953) 2 exemplares
Traitors' Legion 2 exemplares
Kent sagaen: Arvingene (1976) 2 exemplares
The Dreaming Trees 2 exemplares
TEXAS RIDE NORTH, THE 2 exemplares
GONZAGAS WOMAN 2 exemplares
Lys & skygge [Bind] 1 (1995) 2 exemplares
Lys & skygge [Bind] 2 (1995) 2 exemplares
Nebe a peklo (1993) 2 exemplares
No Comment 2 exemplares
Doctor, Doctor! (2000) 2 exemplares
North And South Part 2 Of 2 (1994) 1 exemplar
A Christmas Carol (A Play) (1998) 1 exemplar
De strijders 1 exemplar
Planète à six-coups (1973) 1 exemplar
De dödsdömda 1 exemplar
Inferno e paradiso (1989) 1 exemplar
Lys & skygge (1995) 1 exemplar
Miłość i wojna 1 exemplar
De erfgenamen 1 exemplar
De titanen 1 exemplar
De immigranten 1 exemplar
Havoc à vendre (1995) 1 exemplar
Os titãs 1 exemplar
Láska a válka 1. 1 exemplar
Der Gefangene 1 exemplar
Piekło i niebo 1 exemplar
Nord et sud t2 (1990) 1 exemplar
Nord et sud t3 (1990) 1 exemplar
Nebesa in pekel 1 exemplar
he Warriors 1 exemplar
Los americanos / (1981) 1 exemplar
Pioneeri 1 exemplar
Centenniel Series 1 exemplar
Holiday for Havoc (1995) 1 exemplar
Frozen Hell 1 exemplar
Homeland Part 2 Of 2 (1993) 1 exemplar
The Defiled Sister 1 exemplar
With Wings 1 exemplar
Újvilág 1-2 (2003) 1 exemplar
Flame Face (Short Story) (1968) 1 exemplar
The Running Hounds 1 exemplar
The Beast 1 exemplar
Dr. Sweetkill 1 exemplar
Kentin suku 1 exemplar
Voittajat 1 exemplar
Karkuri 1 exemplar
Cloak And Dagger 1 exemplar
Os pioneiros 1 exemplar
Brak, der Barbar (2018) 1 exemplar
1990 1 exemplar
1996 1 exemplar
Das Versprechen 1 exemplar
I hemmelig tjeneste (2001) 1 exemplar
Am Abgrund der Welt (1976) 1 exemplar
Die rote Sirene. (1996) 1 exemplar
This'll Slay You (1973) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Over My Dead Body (1940) — Introdução, algumas edições1,027 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 1: Wizards (1983) — Contribuidor — 230 exemplares
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (1977) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
Flashing Swords! #2 (1973) — Contribuidor — 198 exemplares
Treasures of Fantasy (1997) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Spectrum 4 (1965) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1982) — Contribuidor; Introdução — 101 exemplares
Heroes and Horrors (1978) — Introdução, algumas edições97 exemplares
North and South [1985 TV miniseries] (2004) — Original novel — 78 exemplares
A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories (2002) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels (1986) — Contribuidor, algumas edições77 exemplares
Orbit 3 (1968) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Swords against Tomorrow (1970) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Guilty As Charged (1996) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Six Science Fiction Plays (Pocket Books Sci-Fi No. 48766) (1975) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Science Fiction Novels (1985) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honour (2000) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Frights (1976) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Amazing Stories: 60 Years of the Best Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Cloak and Dagger: A Treasury of 35 Great Espionage Stories (1988) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Civil War Ghosts (2006) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Fantasy Novels (1984) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Espionage Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Dark Mind, Dark Heart (1962) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Great Tales of the West (1982) — Introdução; Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
101 Mystery Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Law of the Gun (Pinnacle Westerns) (2010) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
The Best of the American West II (1999) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Prime Suspects (1987) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Hollywood Kills (1993) — Introdução — 10 exemplares
Galaxy Science Fiction 1962 August, Vol. 20, No. 6 (1962) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Homicidal Acts (1988) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Space Science Fiction, Spring 1957 (Vol. 1 ∙ No.1) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Universe Ahead: Stories of the Future (1975) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Tomorrow, Inc.: Science Fiction Stories About Big Business (1976) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 20 (1963) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Do-It-Yourself Bestseller: A Workbook (1982) — Contribuidor, algumas edições4 exemplares
Horror Gems, Vol. Three: August Derleth and others (2012) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Fantastic Chicago (1991) — Autor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Jakes, John William
Outros nomes
Payne, Alan
Scotland, Jay
Data de nascimento
1932-03-31
Data de falecimento
2023-03-11
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Local de falecimento
Sarasota, Florida, USA
Locais de residência
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Sarasota, Florida, USA
Educação
Northwestern University
DePauw University (1953)
Ohio State University (MA|American Literature, 1954)
Ocupações
advertising industry
research fellow
novelist
playwright
actor
Organizações
Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
University of South Carolina
Authors Guild
Dramatists Guild of America
PEN (American)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Prémios e menções honrosas
Cooper Medal (2002)
Western Heritage Literary Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame (1995)
South Carolina Academy of Authors
Owen Wister Award (2007)
Nota de desambiguação
John William Jakes (b. 1932), American author of fantasy, science fiction, westerns, and historical fiction. Although Jakes uses the name Alan Payne, there are other authors in LT named Alan Payne. Please do not combine them.

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This is set in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. It focuses on two families: the Hazards, living in Pittsburgh, and the Mains, who own a plantation (and slaves) in South Carolina. George Hazard and Orry Main become best friends when at military school in the early 1840s(?). They fight together in the Mexican War, then retire from the military. George does marry, but Orry falls for a woman who is marrying a brutal slave owner.

Years later, George’s youngest brother, Billy, and Orry’s young cousin, Charles, head to the same military school together (though they have known each other through the families’ friendship for a while now)… but now the school is much more divisive along North/South lines with slavery/politics being the issue.

Orry’s brother, Cooper, is very much against owning slaves and he marries a woman from the North. George’s sister, Virgilia, is a staunch abolitionist and gets in Orry’s face whenever the Mains visit. Billy has fallen in love with Orry’s youngest sister, Brett, though he had a brief flirtation with a sister, Ashton, just slightly older. Brett really is the marrying type vs Ashton’s flirtatious ways.

There is a lot going on in this long book and a lot of North/South mixing between the families and their friends/acquaintances. It’s not often I rate a book this long (over 800 pages) this high, but I really liked this one all the way though (though it was a bit tricky at the start to get a handle on who was who!). There is even more going on (and more characters) than I’ve detailed in my summary. This is the first in a trilogy. I assume the others are also very long, so it might be a while before I get to the next, but I will definitely read it at some point. I’ve never seen the miniseries, but would like to; I hadn’t realized Patrick Swayze is in it!
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LibraryCin | 32 outras críticas | Feb 27, 2024 |
(2000)Historical novel about spying during the Civil War. Follows humble characters as they become involved with historical figures during the war. Shows the gritty and dirty work of the spy during the war. (PW) ...retells the story of the Civil War, and also examines specific aspects of espionage, the development of the Secret Service and the controversies surrounding the Lincoln presidency and assassination. The chaos and drama of romantic love, also figure in the saga, centering on two young couples: Lon Price, a fledgling member of the newly founded Pinkerton agency, encounters beautiful actress Margaret Miller while investigating the secessionist movement, and Confederate lieutenant Frederick Dasher suffers a largely unrequited love for Miller's friend Hanna Siegel, also an actress and a secessionist. The Price/Miller pairing is by far the more interesting of the two, especially as Jakes explores the evolution of Pinkerton's secret service and how it linked with and diverged from the government's efforts to infiltrate the Confederate Army. Most of the scenes take place in and around Washington, and Jakes spreads himself a bit thin by covering the entire war rather than focusing exclusively on a smaller number of clandestine campaigns. The author saves the best for last in dealing with Lincoln's assassination, bringing the drama to life by giving each of his protagonists a crucial role as the conspiracy unfolds with expert pacing and suspense. Jakes uncovers the little-known history of espionage and counterespionage during the War Between the States with his signature combination of meticulous research and epic narrative.… (mais)
 
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derailer | 5 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
This is the way you write historical fiction. I would highly recommend this if you are interested in some of the core causes and thoughts regarding the beginnings of the Civil War. It is a fictional telling that brings facts into the mix and should spark enough interest to delve deeper.
 
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everettroberts | 32 outras críticas | Oct 20, 2023 |
What to say about this book, this brick of a historical fiction novel?

First off, the positives, and there is a lot going in this book’s favor.

The novel is imminently readable, no small advantage for a book of this length. The reader can breeze their way through several chapters without the fatigue that sometimes attends sprawling, historical narratives like this. True, the characters are a bit simple, the heroes are absolute paragons and the villains are cartoonishly evil. However, the plot flows wonderfully and the author juggles the dozen or so interesting characters and their crisscrossing plotlines adroitly.
The principal virtue of this book is its entertainment value. The historic details are present and integral but somehow feel surface level at times. Overall this book narrowly misses the distinction that some historical fiction attains (from the pen of someone like Mary Renault, for instance) of breathing vibrant life into a specific time and place long past, fully capturing the feel for a certain period. This novel presents the history as linear and apparent, which of course it is to us now, but somewhat strains credulity when the main characters back in the mid 1800’s regularly foresee the nature of events, elections, succession, battles, etc. and are almost always right. One almost gets the sense that every main character already knows all about the Civil War in general, just not their specific part to play in it.

Now on to the less positive impressions this book left me with.
First and foremost is the problem of Virgilia.

Virgilia, sister of George Hazzard, is the only truly staunch abolitionist we see in in the entire novel. She is also portrayed as raving mad, vindictive, and seemingly more interested in the cause of abolition for personal motives (resentment, a desire to “get even” with the world, etc.) than for any real moral reasons. Her portrayal only deteriorates as the novel progresses. In the beginning she’s unpleasant, (repeatedly other characters theorize she only does abolition work because she is homely and therefore needs something to occupy her time) and may say something unkind and too pointedly political during dinner. But by the book’s end she’s a complete lunatic who wants to see Orry hanged by a mob. Now I don’t deny some abolitionists were extreme in their views, but it bears repeating that Virgilia is the ONLY abolitionist we spend any time with in the book. Without any other abolitionist characters, she becomes a representative sample which makes her characterization extremely troubling. The only one adamantly against the whole institution of slavery is a spiteful, vindictive person with an apparently serious set of mental disorders.
There were many persuasive, moral, and eloquent abolitionists from this period in American history. We have their speeches, essays, and letters and their assertions were, of course, proven correct. But we hear from none of them in this book, thus we miss a vital element of the debates going on at the time and the work of good people horrified by slavery is omitted.

The problem of Virgilia is really just a symptom of a larger issue I had with the book, that is that it veers incredibly close to ahistorical “Lost Cause” talking points and removes and responsibility for the institution of slavery from any individual slave owners.

At one point towards the end of the novel, Cooper Main, a likeable and honorable South Carolinian, speaks to his wife about his upcoming service to the confederate government. He states he believes the cause “already lost” yet feels compelled to serve his state for the sake of honor. Further, by the end of the novel every “good” character who owns slaves is convinced of the institutions’ moral wrongness yet feels unable to give it up. Indeed, Orry finds a note from his father disclosing that he too knew slavery was wrong despite never expressing those views publicly. This framing attempts to portray the slave holders themselves as victims of a sort while at the same time ameliorating or obviating their own personal responsibility for the “peculiar institution” and didn’t sit well with me.

In their repeated forays into the North, the Mains are often accosted by bigoted Yankees and held personally responsible for all the evils of slavery in America. The author points out, through tone and framing, that this is doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. But they ARE responsible for owning slaves themselves, something the novel never seems eager to address head on, and if they’re not individually responsible for their own actions then who in history was?

I understand the novelist’s impulse to make characters on both sides of the Mason Dixon relatable, to make both families morally good people, it makes for excellent story telling. But this humanizing impulse shouldn’t extend to wiping out personal responsibility for one of the worst institutions to ever exist in the history of our species. I may read the other books in this series but I am thus far skeptical for the reasons mentioned above.
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Autolycus21 | 32 outras críticas | Oct 10, 2023 |

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Membros
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
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Críticas
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ISBN
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Línguas
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Marcado como favorito
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