The Able McLaughlins (Pulitzer Prize 1924)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Reissue. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8x6x1. Luczak, Dennis. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. 223 pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-panel illustration preceding title page and full-page illustrations in text by Dennis Luczak. Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize and the 1923-24 Harper Prize Novel Contest (the first year this was awarded). The Able McLaughlins, Scotch Covenanters, devoted to one another, deeply pious, but humor-loving and full of the emotion and sentiment which exists under the craggy Scotch exterior, are leaders in a pioneer Iowa community, Isobel McLaughlin, mother of ten, and Wully, the oldest son, are characters in whom one feels the spirit and intelligence and dauntless courage that carved out our Western States. The story is Wully's -- his wooing, his bride, his home building and the fine triumphant victory to which the end of the book brings him.