The Fields [Pre-publication copy]

Richter, Conrad

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946

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THE FIELDS, a novel by Conrad Richter, hardcover, dust jacket included but not attached, stated second printing before publication, 1946. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, marks, or dog-ears. Not a remainder nor library book. No bookplate or signature of prior owner. Good binding. Deckle-edged. The tan and brown cloth boards are in very good condition (a few corners and spine slightly bumped). The dust jacket is in pitiful condition but is included. 8 x 5 ½, 288 pages, 16 ounces. NOTE THAT SINCE THE BOOK WEIGHS ONE POUND, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES IF YOU REQUIRE PRIORITY MAIL OR LIVE OUTSIDE THE USA. XX [From the dust jacket flap] RICHTER'S earlier novel, THE TREES, was the story of an American family in the wilderness?a family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The time was the end of the eighteenth century, the wilderness was the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally it was the story of the young girl Sayward, whose people had always been hunters but who now at last were beginning to face the realization that the time had come to till the soil. In this new novel Mr. Richter has told the story of that period of tilling?the story of Sayward as a wife and mother, working with her own brood on that hard frontier to create a durable home and the aspects of civilization in a region where life was still difficult and where towns were just beginning to appear. Indeed, this novel ends precisely at the moment when the settlement, the area of scattered farms, was no longer called a settlement by its people, but, at last, a "town." It is a rich and human story of personal conflicts and personal strife in the midst of a land that itself was, so to speak, striving. It has the epic quality, reflecting the epic of the conquest of the frontier. [From the back cover] His full name is Conrad Michael Richter, and he was born in a small Pennsylvania town named in part by his great-grandfather, a local squire, store and tavern keeper, and major in the War of 1812. One of his ancestors fought with Washington, and another was a Hessian mercenary on the other side. Richter's father was a preacher, and the boy grew up in the small towns and mountain countryside of different parts of Pennsylvania. At fifteen he went to work driving a light wagon over the mountains of Schuylkill County. There followed a variety of jobs until he became a country correspondent for Philadelphia dailies, and eventually a reporter on Johnstown and Pittsburgh papers. He was editor of a weekly at nineteen; left to become a private secretary in Ohio for two years; investigated a silver-lead mine in the Coeur d'Alenes; returned to become a small publisher and started writing in earnest. From childhood he has been intensely interested in early American life, both Eastern and Western. Tales of the former he heard throughout boyhood from the lips of his mother, aunt, and great-aunt; while he heard of the West through an uncle and aunt who had lived there. He was only five or six when he and a young cousin tried to run off to the West to fight Indians and kill buffalo. The expedition failed, but the hold of the West upon his imagination eventually resulted in THE SEA.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Fields [Pre-publication copy]
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Date de parution: 1946
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Impression: 2nd Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Dust Jacket Included
• Poids: 16 onces