The Hessian: A Novel

by Howard Fast

Book Overview

"Fast is always a wonderful storyteller, and the story is a good one. ... Entertaining and memorable". -- Library Journal This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688000533
• ISBN13: 9780688000530
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very Good

I liked it better than most of the books we reading english. I thought it was very thought provoking.

The best book by a great story-teller

Over the past 45 (of my 60) years, I've read or skimmed through almost every one of the many books Howard Fast has written. This is my favorite. I have used it - when it was available - in my American History classes. Like the better known April Morning, its setting is the American Revolution. I prefer The Hessian to April Morning - which is also an excellent book - because it has even more thoughtful questions raised, questions of justice and morality and decency. I think any reader with a heart will inevitably identify with the narrator, Dr. Evan Feversham, and his admiration for the gentle, loving Quakers, and will share, too, his anguish and uncertainty about the human condition.