Remembrance Rock

by Carl Sandburg

A monumental novel that follows the growth of the American dream through more than three centuries. A saga, chronicle, and miscellany on folk themes, it is Sandburg's passionate testament of American life.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Poetry, Literary Fiction, United States, Literature

1088 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

Free verse poems of known American writer Carl August Sandburg celebrated American people, geography, and industry; alongside his six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln (1926-1939), his collections of poetry include Smoke and Steel (1920).

This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

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Reviews

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the only novel by Carl Sandburg. It is a fascinating epic story of the New England Colonies. His prose is as good as his poetry. It is a very long book but I couldn,t put it down.

[Steve Danford · Rating 5 out of 5]

No doubt my love of this long (sometimes slightly annoying) historical novel is idiosyncratic. But I've now read it twice, the two reads separated by about 50 years. Phrases and situations from the first read has stayed with me through those intervening years and it was such a wonderful experience to resurrect the narratives in which they were found. Sandburg loves America, and can teach the reader much about what it took to get here. But a book like this is so far out of style that almost no one reads it, or has even heard of it. Sandburg tries to knit together the different generations of our foremothers (Puritans, New Englanders at the time of the Revolutionary War, settlers moving west, civil war era families) in different ways. They work for me but perhaps not for other readers and that may explain why the book has been forgotten. But the one unmistakable unity across these years, Sandburg tells us, is the suffering and the trials that were endured. Now one describes them better.

[TheQueensBooksII · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hold on to your hat & buckle up if you choose to take this ride! This is a looooong book. I don't recommend it if you are an impatient reader. But if you love generational novels (so generational that honestly I had trouble keeping the characters straight), and if you love reading diverse perspectives on American history, then this is for you. I had not read a Sandburg work before, so I didn't know what to expect. Often, the characters' voices are stilted and over-poetic, rendering them unbelievable and a bit hard to relate to, but overall a worthwhile read. Took me several months to finish.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rarely has so much been said to so few for so little purpose. I wondered why I had never heard anyone talk about this book. Now I know that almost no one cares about it. It functions, but that’s about it. Other than to write a giant book, there is little purpose. It could have been accomplished less clumsily in a tenth the space. Cliche, a public school vision of history, and a few lives that no doubt occurred but for little reason. This was a waste of a week.

[ambrose♡]

this is a spaceholder for No Love Lost because it's an over 600K word fanfic and there's no way I'm not logging it in some kind.

[Cara · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first chapter was very difficult. Once we got to the history, it was very captivating. I love the realistic descriptions of how life was in the 1700s and on.

[Andrea Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

*Review of this amazing work coming soon my friends!*