**A young Midwestern woman resists her family's demands and pursues the dream of a farm of her own in this early twentieth-century classic.** As the youngest child, and female, in a large prosperous farm family, Kate Bates has been designated as her mother's helper in old age. Kate finds this unfa
A Daughter of the Land
β Scribed by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Book ID
- 110785066
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781620132708
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β¦ Synopsis
If you loved Gene Stratton-Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost , be sure to add her later novel A Daughter of the Land to your reading list. The family that serves as the focus of the novel isn't perfect, but they manage to fix their foibles and come together to make something beautiful and lasting. It's an engaging read for anyone who's ever fantasized about leaving city life behind and living off the land.
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