Main-Travelled Roads

MainTravelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. Under the Lions Paw shows anhonest hardw... » 

MainTravelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. Under the Lions Paw shows anhonest hardworking farmer victimized by a greedy landlord. Equally powerfulis the semiautobiographical Up the Coolly concerning a successful son whoreturns from the East to find his mother and brother trapped on a poor farmdefeated in spite of their best efforts. Mrs. Ripleys Trip is a tender storyof an elderly couple settled in their frugal country ways with the wifedetermined to realize her dream of revisiting childhood scenes. AlthoughGarland paints no pretty pictures he offers exhilarating moments in the livesof these farm people and never ignores the strength of individual will. WilliamDean Howellss introduction to the 1922 edition has been retained. «