A Daughter of the Middle Border

by Hamlin Garland

Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, A Daughter of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland's classic account of his early years in Chicago, when-having grown up on the rough open prairie and then worked his way into the East Coast literary world-he settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There he meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually becomes his wife. The intensity of this romance is rivaled only by Garland's struggle between America's coastal elite and his heartland roots. The sequel to Garland's A Son of the Middle Border, this classic of American realism presents an engaging story for first-time readers and Garland fans alike.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000731413
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	07/06/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	297 KB

About the Author

Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), author of more than 40 books, is best known for his short story collection Main-Travelled Roads. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918 and won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1922.

Table of Contents

Introduction     ix
Author's Foreword     xxi
Book I
My First Winter in Chicago     5
I Return to the Saddle     15
In the Footsteps of General Grant     24
Red Men and Buffalo     35
The Telegraph Trail     47
The Return of the Artist     61
London and Evening Dress     74
The Choice of the New Daughter     83
A Judicial Wedding     103
The New Daughter and Thanksgiving     117
My Father's Inheritance     127
We Tour the Oklahoma Prairie     142
Standing Rock and Lake McDonald     152
The Empty Room     168
Book II
A Summer in the High Country     181
The White House Musical     195
Signs of Change     203
The Old Pioneer Takes the Back Trail     215
New Life in the Old House     222
Mary Isabel's Chimney     236
The Fairy World of Childhood     250
The Old Soldier Gains a Granddaughter     265
"Cavanagh" and the "Winds of Destiny"     277
The Old Homestead Suffers Disaster     288
Darkness before the Dawn     299
A Spray of WildRoses     309
A Soldier of the Union Mustered Out     315
Author's Afterword     325

Editorial Reviews

In this brace of literary autobiographies (the individual titles were released in 1921 and 1917, respectively), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Garland unfurled his life growing up in Wisconsin farm country and blazing a trail to the Northeast to study in Boston, where he crossed paths with many of the top writers of the day. Daughter resumes the story of his further adventures in the arts. Paris wasn't the only 1920s literary hot spot. Both New York and Boston had thriving artistic communities into which Garland drifted, meeting young artist Zulime Taft, whom he married. A wonderful piece of Americana. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

<:st> Reprint of the Macmillan edition of 1921 (which is cited in ). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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