Monatsarchive: Mai 2017

Her Father’s Daughter – Gene Stratton-Porter

The energetic, joyous way that Linda Strong wins the heart of everyone in Lilac Valley will carry you in a spell of delight to the fairyland of Nature which Gene Stratton-Porter has truthfully pictured for the environment of her new, lovable girl-character. None of her books will linger in your memory longer than “Her Father’s Daughter”. None brings you a bigger message of truth and loyalty. “Her Father’s Daughter” is delighting both the lovers of her Nature books and the admirers of her fiction. Throughout the lovely, realistic atmosphere of these California gardenlands, and the happy surprises of the story, radiates always the winning personality of Linda Strong.

Her Father’s Daughter

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A Daughter of the Land – Gene Stratton-Porter

Mrs. Porter’s stories are laid in Indiana, in the region of the Limberlost, a great swamp which has been “shorn, branded and tamed” by oilmen and lumbermen, who have driven away the many birds, moths and butterflies, and destroyed much of the plant life. “A Daughter of the Land” is Mrs. Porter’s most ambitious novel. It is the life story of a girl up to the time of her second marriage. The heroine was the youngest of sixteen children and as a girl was denied the educational advantages given to her brothers. She had the courage to rebel and make her own life.

A Daughter of the Land

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Michael O’Halloran – Gene Stratton-Porter

Michael O’Halloran, nicknamed “Mickey”, is a sturdy, big-hearted fellow, an orphan who has remembered the admonitions of his mother and has made the best possible use of them. A most original little fellow he is, full of hard, common sense, and as determined as any boy can be. Every character in the story stands out as clean-cut as a cameo, and there are around dozen of them, all excellent people. The story is interspersed with a feeling for nature – for flowers and birds and the gentle in all things, and with a decided reference for the sweet and genuine and innocent in life, together with an unfaltering faith and expressed assurance in the goodness … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Laddie – Gene Stratton-Porter

A Tale of Indiana—a picture straight from life, showing the home circle of the Stantons and telling the love story of Laddie, the big brother of the Stanton family, and Pamela Pryor, an English girl. The book is full of poetry and of that love of nature that goes hand in hand with the author’s idealism. The vividness of the home life quite lays hold of one so that he cries out: “Here, indeed, is a true story!”

Few will forget the charm of the home wedding when Shelley Stanton was married, or the delicious moment when Leon, facing the congregation in the little Methodist Church, recited his thirteen texts, addressing each one to a member … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Harvester – Gene Stratton-Porter

Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter’s novel is an illustration of the harmony and intimacy which does rightly exist between a man and a forest. In ‘ The Harvester ‘ she has not only dramatized, but proved the purifying and preservative forces that are always present and predominant in such a situation. This is why the story is so popular. It is utterly simple, nothing in the plot to appeal to morbid interest or curiosity. We really prefer what is good and clean in man and in nature if we can get it portrayed in fiction.

The Harvester

Format: Paperback.

The Harvester.

ISBN: 9783849687861

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Short biography of the author (from Wikipedia):… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...