The Last Hundred Years Trilogy

9 books in series
4 out of 5 stars 783 ratings

Some Luck Publisher's summary

Some Luck the first book in Jane Smiley's landmark epic trilogy, was chosen by The Bookseller as their Book of the Month for November.

The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.

1920: After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, willful first-born, to Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him; from Lillian, beloved by her mother, to Henry who craves only the world of his books; and Claire, the surprise baby, who earns a special place in her father's heart.

As Walter and Rosanna struggle to keep their family through good years and hard years - to years more desperate than they ever could have imagined, the world around their little farm will turn, and life for their children will be unrecognizable from what came before.

Some will fall in love, some will have families of their own, some will go to war, and some will not survive. All will mark history in their own way.

Tender, compelling, and moving from the 1920s to the 1950s, told in multiple voices as rich as the Iowan soil, Some Luck is an astonishing feat of storytelling by a prize-winning author writing at the height of her powers.

2015, The Folio Prize, Long-listed

©2014 Jane Smiley (P)2014 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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Product List
  • Book 1

    • Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 1
    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    Regular price: $18.14

    • The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 1
    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    Regular price: $21.52

    • A Novel
    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings

    Regular price: $20.25

  • Book 2

    Regular price: $21.52

  • Regular price: $24.75

    • Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 2
    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    Regular price: $18.14

  • Book 3

    • Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 3
    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    Regular price: $18.14

  • Regular price: $24.75

    • The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 3
    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    Regular price: $21.52

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