num_pages: 592
description: Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1933, The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of North Alabama. The novel's action begins in 1884, when Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War, and it centers about the emergence of Colonel Miltiades Vaiden as a figure of wealth and power in the city of Florence. In The Store, Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. Writing in The New Statesman and Nation upon publication of the book, Gerald Bullett stated The Store "is a first-rate book of its kind, a good story filled with diverse and vital characters; and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next, which is, after all, the triumph of the good story teller."
title: The Store
titlecomplete: The Store
genres: Classics, American, Historical, Race, Civil War, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 660
places: Alabama
series: The Vaiden Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: -1167580800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel
publisher: Buccaneer Books