Unfinished Cathedral

Unfinished Cathedral is the third volume of T.S. Stribling's Southern trilogy and was originally published in 1934. The trilogy, Stribling's greatest literary achievement, is set in and around Florence, Alabama, and spans six decades of social, economic, and political change from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the 1920s. In each of the novels Stribling brings together the various social classes of the period, revealing their interdependency. The Forge is the story of the South during the period of the Civil War and Reconstruction, while The Store chronicles the changing social and econom ...  Read more...