1899. Hamlin Garland was born near La Crosse, Wisconsin and lived in the area for nine years before his family moved to South Dakota. As an adult he lived in major cities throughout the United States but visited his birthplace often. In 1922 he received a Pulitzer Prize for A Daughter of the Middle Border, and was also director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a number of years. This volume contains a selection of his short stories including: A Branch Road; Up the Coolly; Among the Corn-Rows; The Return of a ...
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1899. Hamlin Garland was born near La Crosse, Wisconsin and lived in the area for nine years before his family moved to South Dakota. As an adult he lived in major cities throughout the United States but visited his birthplace often. In 1922 he received a Pulitzer Prize for A Daughter of the Middle Border, and was also director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a number of years. This volume contains a selection of his short stories including: A Branch Road; Up the Coolly; 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; and Uncle Ethan Ripley. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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New York. 1962. August 1962. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0451501314. Afterword By Mark Schorer. 271 pages. paperback. CP131. Cover: Lambert. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature America19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This book challenges the concept of the American dream. It reveals the stubborn courage and pessimistic wit of midwest farmers who are scarcely conscious that they are somewhat to blame for their own misfortunes. Inspired by a visit to the Dakota farm country of his youth, Hamlin Garland's MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS depicts the half-resigned, half-rebellious men and women who work the arid soil for the profit of shrewd landowners. These characters share a sense of deprivation, losing their farms, loved ones, and faith in people-with such recurrence that they feel guilt at even their own occasional, belated successes. 'If anyone is still at a loss to account for that uprising of the farmers in the West which is the translation of the Peasants' War into modern and republican terms, let him read MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS. '-W. D. Howells. inventory #31412.