Product Description: By the end of the 1930s, radical journalist and novelist Josephine Herbst (1892-1969) was widely hailed as one of the most important women writers in America. Yet she died in almost total obscurity. The Starched Blue Sky of Spain And Other Memoirs comprises four autobiographical works: "The Magicians and Their Apprentices," an intimate remembrance of Herbst's girlhood in turn-of-the-century Sioux City, Iowa; "A Year of Disgrace," a contemplative portrait of American literary culture in the 1920s; "Yesterday's Road," an explorative meditation on Herbst's life as a radical; and the title selection, a poignant and lucid evocation of the author's experience during the Spanish Civil War...read more

Product Description: "I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else, " Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded at story-telling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In the conclusion of the Trexler trilogy, the shadow of the Depression darkens America, affecting men and women of all walks of life, in a realistic portrait of the political, economic, and social upheaval of the 1930s

Set against the background of the radicalism of the 1920s, this novel chronicles the lives, fortunes, ideals, and ambitions of Joseph Trexler's nieces, Victoria and Rosamund

Product Description: of Gold: A Novel of the Thirties (Novels of the Thirties Series)