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John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.
The first novel begins just before the American Revolution, with Frenchman Phillipe Charboneau, who travels to England and later to the New World, changing his name to Philip Kent along the way and meeting several key figures of the Revolution, including the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, and ...
Charleston is a 2002 family saga novel by John Jakes. [1] It tells the story of the Bell family, founded by Sydney Greech, who retitled his last name and spawned the clan. The bulk of the book is set in the lead-up to the American Civil War, with a brotherly rivalrous love triangle taking center st
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The scene where the demonic Ariane in her flying chariot shows Brak all the wondrous kingdoms of the world and promises them to him in return for his soul is clearly reminiscent of the Temptation of Jesus in the New Testament, where Satan showed Jesus "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them." The basic assumption made in that ...
The Rebels (John Jakes novel), a 1975 historical novel by John Jakes; Film and TV ... "The Rebels", a 1996 song by The Cranberries from To the Faithful Departed;
North and South is a 1980s trilogy of best-selling novels by John Jakes which take place before, during, and after the American Civil War. [1] The saga tells the story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their ...
Mention My Name in Atlantis, being, at last, the true account of the calamitous destruction of the great island kingdom together with a narrative of its wondrous intercourses with a superior race of other-worldlings, as transcribed from the manuscript of a survivor, Hoptor the Vintner, for the enlightenment of a dubious posterity is a humorous fantasy novel written by John Jakes purporting to ...