Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Louis Bromfield - The farm


Signet classic, 1961. godine na 350. strana, ilustrovano.


Knjiga je odlicno ocuvana.



The Farm is a 1933 novel by Louis Bromfield. Written just before Bromfield`s return from decades of living and writing in Europe, the novel reflects the agrarian interests that would dominate the author`s thinking during the last two decades of his life. David Anderson describes it as Bromfield`s best work but one, like many after the author`s early successes, too little appreciated. `The unfair criticisms of the early 1930s have discouraged later critics from looking at his work clearly and coherently,` he argues.

The Farm traces several generations of a family’s life on and around a fine piece of land in the Western Reserve, early nineteenth-century Ohio. From the time of “The Colonel,” the patriarch of the MacDougal family, who first claimed the property, to the novel’s present, the 1930s, and the family`s last owner of the property, Johnny, the Colonel`s great grandson, Bromfield traces the interactions between the MacDougals, their neighbours, the nearby town, and the land itself.

Throughout the novel, Bromfield suggests the corrosive effects of a mercantile and industrial economy upon the Jeffersonian ideal of an agrarian society.