Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
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"Main-Travelled Roads" by Hamlin Garland is a collection of short stories first published in 1891. Set in the prairie states of the "Middle Border," these eleven semi-autobiographical tales deconstruct the romanticized myth of American farm life. Garland portrays the brutal realities of rural Midwest existence: unrelenting toil, grinding poverty, and crushing hopelessness. Through stories of returning soldiers, struggling farmers, and exhausted farm wives, he exposes the economic injustices and social conditions that
defined post-Civil War agrarian communities, creating what critics called a "terribly serious" work of unflinching realism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 |
|---|---|
| Title | Main-Travelled Roads |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main-Travelled_Roads |
| 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 — God's Ravens — A "Good Fellow's" Wife |
| Credits | Prepared by David Reed |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 91.4 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Western stories |
| Subject | Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 2809 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2001 |
| Last Update | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 695 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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