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" Garland comes from and writes about ; and these stories are full of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the wealth that enriches the alien and... "
Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 633
edited by - 1891
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Main-travelled Roads: Being Six Stories of the Mississippi Valley

Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells - 1891 - 284 pages
...of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...and republican terms, let him read Main-Travelled T{oads and he will begin to understand, unless, indeed, Mr. Garland is painting the exceptional rather...
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The Arena, Volume 4

1891 - 890 pages
...of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush of the common avenues of life : the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...idler, and impoverishes the producer. If any one is Mil at a lose to account for that uprising of the farmers in the West, which is the translation of...
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Main-travelled Roads

Hamlin Garland - 1899 - 390 pages
...of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush, of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...War into modern and republican terms, let him read Main -Travelled Roads, and he will begin to understand, unless, indeed, Mr. Garland is painting the...
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Main-travelled Roads

Hamlin Garland - 1899 - 398 pages
...of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush, of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the wealth that enriches the alien and the idler, and impoversshes the producer. If any one is still at a loss to account for that uprising of the farmers...
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Provincial Types in American Fiction

Horace Spencer Fiske - 1903 - 292 pages
...of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush, of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...alien and the idler, and impoverishes the producer." In the opening of the first sketch in " Main-Traveled Roads," called "A Branch Road," one gets a fine...
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The American Short Story: A Study of the Influence of Locality in Its ...

Elias Lieberman - 1912 - 212 pages
...Cora Bows" in "Main-Travelled Roads." foul and trampled slush of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...alien and the idler and impoverishes the producer. ". . . These stories are full of those gaunt, grim, sordid, pathetic, ferocious figures whom our satirists...
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A History of the People of Iowa

Cyrenus Cole - 1921 - 620 pages
...other end ' ' a home of toil. ' ' And those who did the toiling did so "hopelessly and cheerlessly to make the wealth that enriches the alien and the idler and impoverishes the producer. ' ' We have here the creed of the Populists — Garland's writings were Populism turned into realistic...
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Prairie Schooner, Volumes 1-2

Lowry Charles Wimberly - 1927 - 672 pages
...trampled slush, of the common avenues of life, the life of men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make wealth that enriches the alien and the idler, and impoverishes the producer." By way of criticism, he said, " He has a certain harshness and bluntness, and indifference to the more...
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The Growth of the American Thought

Merle Eugene Curti - 1964 - 970 pages
...Dean Howells expressed the dominant mood of Hamlin Garland's characters. Howells spoke of "the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...enriches the alien and the idler, and impoverishes the producers. . . . The stories are full of those gaunt, grim sordid, pathetic, ferocious figures, whom...
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Main-travelled Roads

Hamlin Garland - 1995 - 276 pages
...of the bitter and burning dust, the foul and trampled slush, of the common avenues of life, the life of the men who hopelessly and cheerlessly make the...alien and the idler, and impoverishes the producer." Garland himself later remarked that he "put in the storm as well as the sun. I included the mud and...
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