William Carleton

New Lives for Old (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When a young couple leaves the city for a neglected New England farm, they trade comfort for hard work and a chance to build something real. Around them sits a town asleep: with fields gone to weeds, credit stretched thin, and neighbors dulled by habit and easy talk.

Across the road, an immigrant family shows a different picture-orderly rows of crops, full barns, accounts paid in cash. Seeing what care can do, the newcomers try a new approach. Instead of sermons, they offer small prizes for real results, fair rules for all, and a club where anyone can learn better methods..

Orchards are pruned, gardens planted, houses mended, and small ventures take root. Progress brings friction-pride, jealousy, and old debts-but also a growing sense of shared purpose..

This is a clear-eyed story about renewal through work, neighborliness, and practical reform, set in a changing New England. It celebrates enterprise without romance and shows how one household's example can wake a village to its own strength.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wildside Press LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781667662381
• Artikelnr.: 75222658