Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main-Travelled_Roads

Release date is 2001-09-01

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

Prepared by David Reed

"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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