The fathers
By: by Allen Tate.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Description: Set during the Civil War, The Fathers is the story of two old Virginia families, the Buchans of Pleasant Hill and the Poseys of Georgetown. It tells of the collapse of a way of life, hastened not by the onslaught of Yankees but by a tragic flaw within the civilization of the Old South.