- Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, general, Cities and towns
The story of a pioneer family and the transition they have to make as urban areas begin to spread in the 1800s.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Conrad Richter
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell, Bantam Books, Ohio University Press
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553119855
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First sentence
“SAYWARD awoke this day with the feeling that something had happened to her.”
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