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Madison Smartt Bell is the author of thirteen previous works of fiction, including Soldier’s Joy and Anything Goes. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
All Souls’ Rising and Master of the Crossroads are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
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All Souls' Rising
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the... Read more >
All Souls' Rising
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.95
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Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.95
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Charm City
A Walk Through Baltimore
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
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A Walk Through Baltimore
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
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Charm City
A Walk Through Baltimore
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
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A Walk Through Baltimore
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
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Devil's Dream
A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals.
With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that... Read more >
A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals.
With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that... Read more >
Devil's Dream
A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
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A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
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Master of the Crossroads
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.95
Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his struggle against the great European powers to free his people in the only successful slave revolution in history. At the outset, Toussaint... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.95
Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his struggle against the great European powers to free his people in the only successful slave revolution in history. At the outset, Toussaint... Read more >
Master of the Crossroads
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 752 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 752 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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The Stone that the Builder Refused
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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The Stone that the Builder Refused
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $16.95
Following the widely acclaimed All Souls’ Rising and Master of the Crossroads, Madison Smartt Bell gives us the climactic final chapter in the life of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the only successful slave revolution in history.
In 1791, what would become known as the Haitian Revolution began as a rebellion... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $16.95
Following the widely acclaimed All Souls’ Rising and Master of the Crossroads, Madison Smartt Bell gives us the climactic final chapter in the life of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the only successful slave revolution in history.
In 1791, what would become known as the Haitian Revolution began as a rebellion... Read more >
The Stone that the Builder Refused
A Novel
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $29.95
Following the widely acclaimed All Souls’ Rising and Master of the Crossroads, Madison Smartt Bell gives us the climactic final chapter in the life of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the only successful slave revolution in history.
In 1791, what would become known as the Haitian Revolution began as a rebellion... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $29.95
Following the widely acclaimed All Souls’ Rising and Master of the Crossroads, Madison Smartt Bell gives us the climactic final chapter in the life of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the only successful slave revolution in history.
In 1791, what would become known as the Haitian Revolution began as a rebellion... Read more >
Toussaint Louverture
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first—and only—successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first—and only—successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
Toussaint Louverture
A Biography
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $27.00
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $27.00
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
Toussaint Louverture
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
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