Main-travelled roads
About this book
Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening return to the places of his boyhood, [providing] the stimulus and material for his first fiction. With the perspective distance had given him, he sensed the 'tragic futility' of the farmers' existence and resolved, as he wrote in retrospect, to put the 'stern facts' of the rural American West into literature. The result was the realistic, local-color stories that made up Main-Travelled Roads Garland narrates episodes in the grueling life of middle-border farming . [he] describes realistically the 'sorrow, resignation, and a sort of dumb despair' of the farmers and members of their families.
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 380 readers · 258 pages · ≈ 4 h 47 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Main-travelled roads?
About ≈ 4 h 47 m — 258 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Main-travelled roads?
258 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Main-travelled roads?
It sits on the Westerns, Fiction shelves.
Is Main-travelled roads in the public domain?
Yes — it is free to read and share.
Where does Main-travelled roads take place?
It is set in Mississippi River Valley during 19th century.
Who wrote Main-travelled roads?
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940).
Where can I read Main-travelled roads online for free?
It is in the public domain — read it free on Open Library