A Daughter of the Land A Classic Novel of Land, Work, and Self-Reliance
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Smk BooksSeitenzahl
236
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.9 cm
Gewicht
540 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-3539-6
A Daughter of the Land is Gene Stratton-Porter's story of ambition, independence, work, and a woman's fight to claim a life of her own. Kate Bates is the daughter of a prosperous farm family, but being one of many children means she is expected to accept the limits placed before her. Intelligent, strong-willed, and unwilling to disappear into other people's plans, Kate wants land, education, usefulness, and a measure of freedom that no one seems eager to hand her. First published in 1918, the novel blends domestic fiction, rural realism, romance, and Stratton-Porter's familiar concern with character shaped by the natural world. Kate's journey takes her through family conflict, teaching, marriage, loss, hard choices, and the practical realities of earning a place in the world. The result is one of Stratton-Porter's more direct novels of female self-reliance: a story about work, inheritance, disappointment, endurance, and the stubborn dignity of building something that cannot easily be taken away. Readers drawn to classic women's fiction, American rural fiction, early twentieth-century domestic novels, farm-life stories, and Gene Stratton-Porter's nature-rooted storytelling will find A Daughter of the Land a strong and satisfying work. It belongs beside her better-known novels as another example of her belief that character, labor, land, and moral courage are inseparable.
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