Conrad Richter

The Fields (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Of this second novel in Conrad Richter's great trilogy, Louis Bromfield wrote: "The Fields continues the life of Sayward after her strange marriage to the 'educated' New Englander Portious, through the raising of their family of eight children. But it is much more than that; it is also the tale of the slow battle and eventual victory over the Trees and that relentless forest which even today marches in and takes over an Ohio field that has been left untilled for a year or two. Bit by bit, through hard work and in hardship, the forest is conquered and the villages emerge into the light surrounded by fields of great fertility. . . . "The story is told with a feeling of poetry and the picturesque turn of language which characterized the speech of the frontier and can still be heard in the Ohio country districts . . . Sayward, the heroine, is the portrait of a simple, eternal woman dominating in an instinctive way a husband who is far more educated and subtle than herself. The children are real children, each with his own personality. . . . "It [The Fields] has beauty, form, historical significance, and at the same time reality and the magic which accompanies illusion."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780451493736
• Artikelnr.: 44702615

Autorenporträt

CONRAD RICHTER was born in Pennsylvania, the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of clergymen. He was intended for the ministry, but at thirteen he declined a scholarship and left preparatory school for high school, from which he was graduated at fifteen. After graduation he went to work. His family on his mother's side was identified with the early American scene, and from boyhood on he was saturated with tales and the color of Eastern pioneer days. In 1928 he and his small family, moved to New Mexico, where his heart and mind were soon captured by the Southwest. From this time on he devoted himself to fiction. The Sea of Grass and The Trees were awarded the gold medal of the Societies of Libraries of New York University in 1942. The Town received the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, and The Waters of Kronos won the 1960 National Book Award for fiction. The Fields was first published in 1946. His other novels include The Light in the Forest (1953), The Lady (1957), A Simple Honorable Man (1962), and The Grandfathers (1964).