In this Book
- Foundation Stone
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
- Series: Library Alabama Classics
Using the history of Alabama and the stories of her pioneering ancestors, Lella Warren created the Whetstone clan who settled Alabama in the 1820s, helped lead it into the prosperity of the 1850s, and fought for it in the War Between the States. The historical background of Foundation Stone is authentic, but, more, it is a compelling story about believable characters. The story of these people—three generations of Whetstones—captures the American pioneering spirit. As an unidentified reviewer described the novel, “Lella Warren’s ‘Foundation Stone’ is the long, well-told chronicle of a family that loved and hoped and struggled in a difficult world, unaware that they symbolized an era and a way of life.” Foundation Stone was published in September 1940 and was on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list September 1940-February 1941, along with Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xxxiv
- Book One: The Home Place
- Chapter 10
- pp. 83-96
- Book Two: Pioneering
- Chapter 11
- pp. 99-103
- Chapter 12
- pp. 104-117
- Chapter 13
- pp. 118-122
- Chapter 14
- pp. 123-131
- Chapter 15
- pp. 132-142
- Chapter 16
- pp. 143-148
- Chapter 17
- pp. 149-158
- Chapter 18
- pp. 159-168
- Chapter 19
- pp. 169-178
- Chapter 20
- pp. 179-192
- Chapter 21
- pp. 193-200
- Chapter 22
- pp. 201-207
- Chapter 23
- pp. 208-209
- Chapter 24
- pp. 210-214
- Book Three: The Land Yields
- Chapter 25
- pp. 217-230
- Chapter 26
- pp. 231-234
- Chapter 27
- pp. 235-247
- Chapter 28
- pp. 248-264
- Chapter 29
- pp. 265-276
- Chapter 30
- pp. 277-285
- Chapter 31
- pp. 286-292
- Chapter 32
- pp. 293-300
- Chapter 33
- pp. 301-310
- Chapter 34
- pp. 311-319
- Chapter 35
- pp. 320-326
- Chapter 36
- pp. 327-343
- Chapter 37
- pp. 344-356
- Chapter 38
- pp. 357-360
- Chapter 39
- pp. 361-365
- Chapter 40
- pp. 366-372
- Chapter 41
- pp. 373-375
- Chapter 42
- pp. 376-386
- Book Four: The Cotton Snobs
- Chapter 43
- pp. 389-396
- Chapter 44
- pp. 397-409
- Chapter 45
- pp. 410-420
- Chapter 46
- pp. 421-428
- Chapter 47
- pp. 429-436
- Chapter 48
- pp. 437-445
- Chapter 49
- pp. 446-453
- Chapter 50
- pp. 454-465
- Chapter 51
- pp. 466-472
- Book Five: Cotton Militant
- Chapter 52
- pp. 475-483
- Chapter 53
- pp. 484-488
- Chapter 54
- pp. 489-495
- Chapter 55
- pp. 496-505
- Chapter 56
- pp. 506-518
- Chapter 57
- pp. 519-532
- Book Six: The Land Scarred
- Chapter 58
- pp. 535-543
- Chapter 59
- pp. 544-556
- Chapter 60
- pp. 557-564
- Chapter 61
- pp. 565-573
- Chapter 62
- pp. 574-580
- Chapter 63
- pp. 581-583
- Chapter 64
- pp. 584-589
- Chapter 65
- pp. 590-600
- Chapter 66
- pp. 601-603
- Chapter 67
- pp. 604-614
- Book Seven: Rock Wall
- Chapter 68
- pp. 617-622
- Chapter 69
- pp. 623-638