Main-Travelled Roads

Garland, Hamlin

ISBN 10: 1493783459 / ISBN 13: 9781493783458

Edité par CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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Synopsis :

"Was it not in Garland that American farmers first talked like farmers? Was it not Garland who among the very first dedicated his career to realism? Was it not Garland who, almost alone in the eighties, sat in the Boston Public Library writing out of his loneliness and poverty those first realistic stories that were to guide others to a new literature in America? It is true". (Alfred Kazin, "On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature"). "Main-Travelled Roads" contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a greedy landlord. Equally powerful is the semi-autobiographical "Up the Coolly", concerning a successful son who returns from the East to find his mother and brother trapped on a poor farm, defeated in spite of their best efforts. "Mrs. Ripley's Trip" is a tender story of an elderly couple settled in their frugal country ways, with the wife determined to realize her dream of revisiting childhood scenes. Although Garland paints no pretty pictures, he offers exhilarating moments in the lives of these farm people and never ignores the strength of individual will.

Présentation de l'éditeur: "Was it not in Garland that American farmers first talked like farmers? Was it not Garland who among the very first dedicated his career to realism? Was it not Garland who, almost alone in the eighties, sat in the Boston Public Library writing out of his loneliness and poverty those first realistic stories that were to guide others to a new literature in America? It is true". (Alfred Kazin, "On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature"). "Main-Travelled Roads" contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a greedy landlord. Equally powerful is the semi-autobiographical "Up the Coolly", concerning a successful son who returns from the East to find his mother and brother trapped on a poor farm, defeated in spite of their best efforts. "Mrs. Ripley's Trip" is a tender story of an elderly couple settled in their frugal country ways, with the wife determined to realize her dream of revisiting childhood scenes. Although Garland paints no pretty pictures, he offers exhilarating moments in the lives of these farm people and never ignores the strength of individual will.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Main-Travelled Roads
Éditeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition : 2013
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good