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_aSandburg, Helga, _d1918-2014 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe wheel of earth |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-03-04 | ||
| 508 | _aAdam Buchbinder, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"The wheel of earth" by Helga Sandburg is a novel written in the mid-20th century. Set on a hardscrabble Kentucky farm, it follows sixteen-year-old Ellen Gaddy as she comes of age amid the cycles of work, nature, faith, and desire, caught between a stern father, a withdrawn mother, a favored younger sister, and the disruptive pull of a charming outsider, Christian Ay. Lyrical, sensuous descriptions of land and animals frame a story about longing, constraint, and the costs of awakening. The opening of the novel immerses us in Ellen’s daily farm life: gathering June apples, tending a beloved goat that bears twins, and moving through a household ruled by her rigid father Anton and quiet mother Maria, with music-minded sister Frankie on the margins. A trip to the local store brings a charged first encounter with Christian, followed by a clandestine ride and, later, a circus outing that ends with Anton’s violent punishment when he learns she deceived him. Summer deepens through chores, harvest, and losses—most piercingly the accidental death of one kid—while Ellen and Christian drift between attraction and quarrel, and Anton’s wary intervention heightens the tension. The section culminates when Christian shows Ellen the Brinker farm’s prized stallion, and in the shadow of the stables his advances turn coercive, leaving her struggling as the scene ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958 |
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| 653 | _aYoung women -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aFarm life -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aKentucky -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aTeenage girls -- Fiction | ||
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