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A narrator born in 1921 describes growing up in a diminished, economically depredated northern region of an alternate United States after a southern victory in the Civil War, tracing family memory, social decline, and the persistent belief that the war ruined everything. The account follows his involvement with scientific efforts to study and manipulate time, culminating in an experiment that sends him into the past to observe and attempt to alter a pivotal battlefield moment. Interwoven with the time-travel plot are reflections on contingency, historical responsibility, and how large political outcomes shape ordinary lives.

By Ward Moore

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Bring the Jubilee

This is an original novel—not a reprint—published by FARRAR, STRAUS & YOUNG, INC. The low price of $2.00 is made possible by large printings of combined editions.

 

Bring
the
Jubilee

WARD
MOORE
 

FARRAR, STRAUS and YOUNG, Inc.
NEW YORK

Copyright 1952 Fantasy House, Inc.
Copyright 1953 Ward Moore
All rights reserved. Manufactured in the  U. S. A.
Library of Congress catalog card number: 53-10417

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For
TONY BOUCHER and MICK McCOMAS
who liked this story

What he will he does, and does so much
That proof is call’d impossibility
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It is always the puzzle of the nature of time that brings our thoughts to a standstill. And if time is so fundamental that an understanding of its true nature is for ever beyond our reach, then so also in all probability is a decision in the age-long controversy between determination and free will.

The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans