Son of the Middle Border

A classic American book and the coming-of-age of a prairie farm boy. This is Hamlin Garland’s autobiography, starting on the farm and following his path to Boston. This is a moving tale of homesteading and a stunning tribute to rural America.

Excerpt:
All of this universe known to me in the year 1864 was bounded by the wooded hills of a little Wisconsin coulee, and its center was the cottage in which my mother was living alone - my father was in the war. As I project myself back into that mystical age, half lights cover most of the valley. The road before our doorstone begins and ends in vague obscurity - and Granma Green's house at the fork of the trail stands on the very edge of the world in a sinister region peopled with bears and other menacing creatures. Beyond this point all is darkness and terror.
It is Sunday afternoon and my mother and her three children, Frank, Harriet and I (all in our best dresses) are visiting the Widow Green, our nearest neighbor, a plump, jolly woman whom we greatly love.

O carte clasica americana si majorarea unui baiat fermier de prerie. Aceasta este autobiografia lui Hamlin Garland, incepand de la ferma si urmandu-si drumul spre Boston.