The Engineer (William's House, Volume III)

The Engineer (William's House, Volume III)
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Author(s)	Tito Perdue
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fiction
Publisher	Arktos
Publication year	2018
Pages	418
ISBN	1910524956

The Engineer (William's House, Volume III) is a novel by American author Tito Perdue, published by Arktos in 2016. This is the third book in the William's House series.

Publisher description

"This, the third volume in Tito Perdue’s tetralogy, pulls the reader further into Young Albert Pefley’s narrative, following his nascent career in engineering and many high-risk detours along the way. We follow Albert through his studies at the academy, where he finds professional favor, love, and a talent for boxing, up to New York and prestigious employment. But his soul lies in the South, and before long the Yankee lifestyle makes him hanker for the simple pleasures of William’s house. The future is never simple for Albert however, and before long he finds himself chasing a dream on the Pacific, where many have tried their luck but few carry it through. A sweeping tale of youth’s optimism and heartfelt values, The Engineer spans the breadth of a continent and put’s Albert’s determination to the greatest test so far…

Spanning two generations, the William’s House tetralogy chronicles the rise of the Pefleys in Alabama across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The struggles of father William Pefley and his wife Deborah against poverty, disease, and their own expectations are charted through the birth of their four sons and their varying destinies. Each one of these sons find themselves in positions beyond their father’s expectation or influence, however it is in Young Albert that the story finds its grandest expression, and in which an emerging industrial America is symbolized through his entrepreneurial adventures and exotic travels. As control of their fate passes from father to son, the brothers find themselves in a world which is in transition, in which the Georgia that gave them their first memories is changing beyond recognition and can no longer hold them. But the call of family and memory always calls them home, back to William’s house, where they first saw daylight."

Books by the same author

• Journey to a Location (2021)
• The Sweet-Scented Manuscript (2019)
• Lee (2019)
• The Bent Pyramid (2018)
• Philip (2017)
• The Bachelor (William's House, Volume IV) (2016)
• The Churl (William's House, Volume II) (2015)
• The Builder (William's House, Volume I) (2015)
• Morning Crafts (2012)

Publication data

• The Engineer (William's House, Volume III), Tito Perdue, 2016, Arktos, ISBN-10: 1910524956, ISBN-13: 978-1-910524-95-4

External Links

• The Engineer (William's House, Volume III) at Arktos