Main-Travelled Roads: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Main-Travelled Roads is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Garland, Hamlin (1860–1940).
Catalogue synopsis
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Main-Travelled Roads
- Author credits: Garland, Hamlin (1860–1940)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction
- Short stories
- Western stories
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Short Stories
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