{"product_id":"the-forge-library-of-alabama-classics","title":"The Forge (Library of Alabama Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book in T. S. Striblings award-winning Vaiden Trilogy about life in north Alabama at the onset  during  and after the Civil War  Originally published in 1931  The Forge introduces the Vaiden family  residents of the rural north Alabama of Striblings own youth. The Vaidens are a family of white yeoman farmers who scratch out a living in the social and financial shadow of the Lacefields  masters of an opulent plantation nearby.  The novel opens on Alabamas secession and the onset of the Civil War. It traces the story of Miltiades Vaiden  who enlists in the Confederate army  and explores the ways the Vaidens  Lacefields  and freed slaves attempt to adapt to the collapse of southern society on the home front.  After The Forge  Stribling continued the Vaiden saga in 1932 with The Store  which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. He completed the trilogy in 1934 with The Unfinished Cathedral. Together  the three books paint a portrait of the agrarian South of the mid-nineteenth century  its destruction  and the beginnings of a mercantile future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985223970869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0817302492","price":43.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780817302498.jpg?v=1770852841","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-forge-library-of-alabama-classics","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}