Other Main-Travelled Roads - Garland, Hamlin
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Other main-travelled roads examines the emotional and social tensions embedded in rural Midwestern life, focusing on how isolation, labor, and unspoken longing shape the inner worlds of working-class individuals. Through stark yet intimate portrayals of those living along the dusty byways of the prairie, the collection confronts the often romanticized vision of agrarian simplicity. The opening evokes the first signs of spring as a hired laborer pauses to observe the land, revealing a moment of tenderness in contrast to the daily rigors of toil. As interactions unfold within the household where…mehr

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Other main-travelled roads examines the emotional and social tensions embedded in rural Midwestern life, focusing on how isolation, labor, and unspoken longing shape the inner worlds of working-class individuals. Through stark yet intimate portrayals of those living along the dusty byways of the prairie, the collection confronts the often romanticized vision of agrarian simplicity. The opening evokes the first signs of spring as a hired laborer pauses to observe the land, revealing a moment of tenderness in contrast to the daily rigors of toil. As interactions unfold within the household where he works, the lines between duty, affection, and class boundaries grow more pronounced. The character s hopes for connection are tempered by the looming presence of hierarchy and expectation, revealing a delicate balance between personal desire and societal judgment. The narrative constructs a world where fleeting beauty and harsh circumstance coexist, and where emotional expression is constrained by unyielding structures. With restrained prose and close attention to physical detail, the stories in this volume portray the understated drama of everyday life in an environment defined as much by silence and endurance as by visible action.
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Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story author, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction about hardworking Midwestern farmers. Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1860, as the second of four children of Richard Garland of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. The boy was named after Abraham Lincoln's vice president, Hannibal Hamlin. He grew up on numerous Midwestern farms before relocating to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a writing career. He read diligently at the Boston Public Library. There he grew infatuated with Henry George's views and the Single Tax Movement. George's beliefs influenced several of his writings, including Main-Travelled Roads (1891), Prairie Folks (1892), and his novel Jason Edwards (1892). Main-Travelled Roads was his first big hit. It was a compilation of short stories inspired by his time on the farm. He serialized a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in McClure's Magazine before turning it into a book in 1898. The same year, Garland visited the Yukon to observe the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899).