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This account is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who -
informed by the full brute force of a homesteader's life on the
vast unbroken prairie - would become a pre-eminent American writer
of the early 20th century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland
recounts in this captivating autobiography his journey from a rural
childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston,
his vital connections with such inspirations as William Howells and
eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the
Midwest's beautiful yet hard land.
This sequel to Garland's acclaimed autobiography, "A Son of the
Middle Border, "continues his story as he sets out for Chicago and
settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There he
meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually
becomes his wife. The intensity of this romance is rivaled only by
Garland's struggle between America's coastal elite and his
heartland roots. "A Daughter of the Middle Border" won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1922, forever securing his place in the literary canon.
This edition of Hamlin Garland's best novel-best both for
historical reasons and intrinsically--reprints Rose of Dutcher's
Coolly in its original form. Partly in response to the attack on it
when it appeared in 1895, Garland revised the novel in 1899, and
this revision was used as the text of all later republications of
Rose. As well as comparing the 1895 and 1899 editions, Donald
Pizer's introduction places the novel in the context of Garland's
career and in particular defines his attitude toward woman's
sexuality as revealed in Rose-an attitude that was then considered
radical and that lead to the attempted suppression of the book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
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Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of more than
forty books, was a central figure in American literary life for
half a century. He was intimately involved with many of the major
literary, social, and artistic movements in American culture, and
his extensive correspondence with the intellectual leaders of
American culture was almost unparalleled in scope.
This volume brings together a rich, representative sample of
Garland's letters. They are addressed to an impressive roster of
individuals: Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells, Walt Whitman,
Zona Gale, Theodore Roosevelt, Van Wyck Brooks, Howard Mumford
Jones, Brander Matthews, Stephen Crane, George Washington Cable,
and many others. The letters touch on an equally broad range of
subjects, from the U.S. government's reprehensible treatment of
Native Americans to environmental issues to the major literary
figures and controversies of Garland's day.
Frank, opinionated, and wide-ranging, Garland's letters provide
a valuable and entertaining portrait of American cultural and
intellectual life in the years between 1890 and 1940.
"Main-Travelled Roads" contains eleven stories in this expanded and
revised 1922 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. William Dean Howells's
introduction to the 1922 edition has been retained.
"Boy Life on the Prairie" was first published in 1899, some
eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland's "A Son of
the Middle Border," The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R.
McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of
"Boy Life," has overshadowed the "earlier and better book of
reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland's boyhood
experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote
"Boy Life on the Prairie" Garland was much closer to the subject
than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted
aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up
in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may
safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative
an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in
nineteenth-century America--those of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and
Howells, for example--one is impressed with the thoroughness and
precision of Garland's book. Aside from "Main-Travelled Roads,"
"Boy Life," is probably the best single book that Garland ever
wrote."
The Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to
reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction
addressed "To My Young Readers" and the "Author's Notes" which
appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn & Bacon. The
forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W.
Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction,
Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of "Boy
Life" and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were
Garland's first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with "A Son of
the Middle Border,"
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