An edition of Main-travelled roads (1891)

Main-travelled roads

Authorized ed. ; with an introduction by William Dean Howells and an afterword and bibliography by B. R. McElderry, Jr
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Main-travelled roads
Hamlin Garland
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An edition of Main-travelled roads (1891)

Main-travelled roads

Authorized ed. ; with an introduction by William Dean Howells and an afterword and bibliography by B. R. McElderry, Jr
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Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening return to the places of his boyhood, [providing] the stimulus and material for his first fiction. With the perspective distance had given him, he sensed the 'tragic futility' of the farmers' existence and resolved, as he wrote in retrospect, to put the 'stern facts' of the rural American West into literature. The result was the realistic, local-color stories that made up Main-Travelled Roads Garland narrates episodes in the grueling life of middle-border farming . [he] describes realistically the 'sorrow, resignation, and a sort of dumb despair' of the farmers and members of their families.

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Harper and Row
Language
English
Pages
272

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Main-travelled roads
1995, University of Nebraska Press
in English
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Main-travelled roads.
1974, Signet Classic
Cover of: Main-travelled roads
Main-travelled roads
1956, Harper and Row
in English - Authorized ed. ; with an introduction by William Dean Howells and an afterword and bibliography by B. R. McElderry, Jr
Cover of: Main-travelled roads
Cover of: Main-travelled roads.
Cover of: Main-travelled roads
Main-travelled roads
1899, Harper & Row
in English - Circa 1956.
Cover of: Main-travelled Roads
Cover of: Main-travelled Roads: Being Six Stories of the Mississippi Valley
Cover of: Main-travelled roads; being six stories of the Mississippi Valley
Cover of: Main-travelled roads
Cover of: Main-travelled roads
Main-travelled roads
1891, Harper & Brothers
in English - Border edition.

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New York

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A Perennial classic

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Pagination
xiii, 272 p. ;
Number of pages
272

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OL15443012M

First Sentence

"IN the windless September dawn a voice went ringing clear and sweet, a man's voice, singing a cheap and common air."

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