A Son of the Middle Border


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(4.8 stars; 6 reviews)

In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human struggle with nature or the things she will withhold unless they are forced from her by man's tireless toil and mighty mechanism, and in the vision he knows a battle-joy as distinctive of this Son of the Middle Border as his fidelity to the sordid and squalid details of the campaign, or his exultation of the beauty of the West which he has so passionately hated and finally so passionately loves. As you read the story of his life you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.(Introduction by William Dean Howells, New York Times review, August 26, 1917) (15 hr 31 min)

Capítulos

01 - Home from the War 24:41 Leído por Greg W.
02 - The McClintocks 24:12 Leído por Greg W.
03 - The Home in the Coulee 31:08 Leído por Greg W.
04 - Father Sells the Farm 15:22 Leído por Greg W.
05 - The Last Threshing in the Coulee 18:25 Leído por Greg W.
06 - David and His Violin 16:47 Leído por Greg W.
07 - Winneshiek 'Woods and Prairie Lands' 22:16 Leído por Greg W.
08 - We Move Again 12:54 Leído por Greg W.
09 - Our First Winter on the Prairie 28:21 Leído por Greg W.
10 - The Homestead on the Knoll 15:03 Leído por Greg W.
11 - School Life 18:26 Leído por Greg W.
12 - Chores and Almanacs 16:51 Leído por Greg W.
13 - Boy Life on the Prairie 40:18 Leído por Greg W.
14 - Wheat and the Harvest 34:26 Leído por Greg W.
15 - Harriet Goes Away 24:03 Leído por Greg W.
16 - We Move to Town 32:09 Leído por Greg W.
17 - A Taste of Village Life 29:28 Leído por Greg W.
18 - Back to the Farm 34:59 Leído por Greg W.
19 - End of School Days 25:31 Leído por Greg W.
20 - The Land of the Dakotas 27:20 Leído por Greg W.
21 - The Grasshopper and the Ant 39:12 Leído por Greg W.
22 - We Discover New England 24:29 Leído por Greg W.
23 - Coasting Down Mt Washington 16:24 Leído por Inah Derby
24 - Tramping, NY, Washington & Chicago 28:25 Leído por Inah Derby
25 - The Land of the Straddle-Bug 35:17 Leído por Inah Derby
26 - On to Boston 29:50 Leído por Inah Derby
27 - Enter a Friend 40:17 Leído por Inah Derby
28 - A Visit to the West 43:47 Leído por Inah Derby
29 - I Join the Anti-Poverty Brigade 41:31 Leído por Inah Derby
30 - My Mother is Stricken 26:55 Leído por Inah Derby
31 - Main Travelled Roads 21:12 Leído por Inah Derby
32 - The Spirit of Revolt 22:46 Leído por Inah Derby
33 - The End of the Sunset Trail 13:19 Leído por Inah Derby
34 - We Go to California 28:29 Leído por Inah Derby
35 - The Homestead in the Valley 26:41 Leído por Inah Derby

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(5 stars)

a real midcentury gem. especially for memoir lovers. not fast paced but beautifully written