Pride's Castle
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| Author | Frank Yerby |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical |
| Publisher | Dial Press |
| Publication date | 1949 |
| Publication place | United States |
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Pride's Castle is a 1949 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. It was ranked ninth on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year.[1] Like many of his books it is set in nineteenth-century America. Although it was his first novel set in the North, the protagonist is a Southerner.[2] It was adapted as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse that aired on NBC in September 1949, with Anthony Quinn, Catherine McLeod and Louise Allbritton in the cast.
Synopsis
[edit]Pride Dawson rises to become a robber baron in Gilded Age New York City.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Hill, James Lee. Anti-heroic Perspectives: The Life and Works of Frank Yerby. University of Iowa, 1976.
- Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900–1999 : as Seen Through the Annual Bestseller Lists of Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2001.
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