TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garland,Hamlin
TI  - Main-Travelled Roads
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Western stories
KW  - Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction
N1  - 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; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2809
ER  -