Pride's Castle

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Pride's Castle
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Author Frank Yerby
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
Publisher Dial Press
Publication date
1949
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint

Pride's Castle is a 1949 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. It was ranked ninth on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year. [1] Like many of his books it is set in nineteenth-century America. Although it was his first novel set in the North, the protagonist is a Southerner. [2] It was adapted as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse that aired on NBC in September 1949, with Anthony Quinn, Catherine McLeod and Louise Allbritton in the cast.

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Synopsis

Pride Dawson rises to become a robber baron in Gilded Age New York City.

References

  1. Korda p.97
  2. Hill p.181

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