''Kneel to the Rising Sun'' is a collection of
short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
by
Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as '' Tobacco Road'' (1 ...
first published in 1935. The seventeen stories, only a few pages each, all deal with various tragedies occurring in the early twentieth century
American South, chiefly caused by poverty or racism. Caldwell is most well known for his novels, such as ''
Tobacco Road''; however, ''Kneel to the Rising Sun'' is held in high acclaim by his critics.
Stories
*"Candy-Man Beechum"
*"The Walnut Hunt"
*"Horse Thief"
*"The Man Who Looked Like Himself"
*"Maud Island"
*"The Shooting"
*"Honeymoon"
*'Martha Jean"
*"A Day's Wooing"
*"The Cold Winter"
*"The Girl Ellen"
*"The Growing Season"
*'Daughter"
*'Blue Boy"
*"Slow Death"
*"Masses of Men"
*"Kneel to the Rising Sun"
1935 short story collections
American short story collections
Southern Gothic short stories
Viking Press books
Works by Erskine Caldwell
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