An edition of Main-travelled roads (1891)

Main-travelled roads

New ed., with additional stories.
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An edition of Main-travelled roads (1891)

Main-travelled roads

New ed., with additional stories.
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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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English
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299

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Cover of: Main-travelled roads
Main-travelled roads
1995, University of Nebraska Press
in English
Cover of: Main-travelled roads.
Main-travelled roads.
1974, Signet Classic
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
Main-travelled roads
1899, The Macmillan Company
in English - New ed., with additional stories.
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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Table of Contents

A branch road.
Up the cooly.
Among the corn-rows.
The return of a private.
Under the lion's paw.
The creamery man.
A day's pleasure.
Mrs. Ripley's trip.
Uncle Ethan Ripley.

Edition Notes

Illustrations wanting in L.C. copy.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.G18 M4, PS1732 M4

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 299 p.
Number of pages
299

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL529415M
Internet Archive
maintravelledro02garlgoog
LCCN
99004062
OCLC/WorldCat
7022182
Library Thing
106189

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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