Hamlin Garland

Broschiertes Buch

A Son Of The Middle Border

Beschreibung

A son of the middle border is an autobiographical reflection on a formative American era, tracing the experiences of a farming family in the rural Midwest during a time of national transformation. Rooted in the author s childhood, the narrative blends individual memory with collective history, portraying the pioneer ethos through a personal lens. Beginning with the emotional return of a father after the Civil War, the story captures a household reuniting under the weight of sacrifice and change. Life on the farm is presented with vivid detail, revealing both the hardship and quiet majesty of nature that shaped the narrator s earliest impressions. The wilderness is not only a physical environment but a symbol of the untamed forces social, emotional, and historical that the family navigates. Throughout the book, recollections of kinship, labor, and youthful wonder build a layered picture of domestic resilience and cultural inheritance. The result is a tribute to the rural Midwest as a site of identity, nostalgia, and the enduring pull of one s origins during a period of American expansion.

Autor

Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story author, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction about hardworking Midwestern farmers. Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1860, as the second of four children of Richard Garland of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. The boy was named after Abraham Lincoln's vice president, Hannibal Hamlin. He grew up on numerous Midwestern farms before relocating to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a writing career. He read diligently at the Boston Public Library. There he grew infatuated with Henry George's views and the Single Tax Movement. George's beliefs influenced several of his writings, including Main-Travelled Roads (1891), Prairie Folks (1892), and his novel Jason Edwards (1892). Main-Travelled Roads was his first big hit. It was a compilation of short stories inspired by his time on the farm. He serialized a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in McClure's Magazine before turning it into a book in 1898. The same year, Garland visited the Yukon to observe the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9789371466608
• ISBN-10: 937146660X
• Artikelnr.: 75417921