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List Price: $21.95Amazon.com's Price: $16.46 You Save: $5.49 (25%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780803259072
ISBN: 0803259077
Label: Bison Books
Manufacturer: Bison Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 333
Publication Date: February 01, 1985
Publisher: Bison Books
Sales Rank: 184910
Studio: Bison Books
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Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, Spring Came on Forever, a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head. The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man. Quickly paced and precisely drawn, this novel is Aldrich's greatest tribute to the complexity, humor, endurance, and intelligence of the people who settled the prairie. Whatever its sentiments, it has as many cutting edges as a buzz saw.
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I could've cried over this book. What teen girl who loves heartbreakers wouldn't?(besides me? i've only cried over one book but shhh. don't tell. this book should be cried over). Aldrich wrote this book to touch hearts, I can see that already! This book was so sweet, and through it all, I just wanted to cry thinking how Mathias and Amalia were able to put their short, yet sweet romance behind them. Anyway, Mathias was working in the shop one day, when his future "kliene taub,"(little dove) walks ... Read More
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I have just re-read "A Lantern in Her Hand" and wanted to read more by this author.
This is a wonderful story of how the Middle West was settled with hope, dreams and a lot of hard work. I think feminists should read this book to see how real women worked in the settlements of the Plains states. There were many hardships, but they kept going.
My great-grandparents lived at approximately this time and homesteaded in Iowa. It was like reading their story.
I especially ... Read More
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A heavy reader, I have excellent recall but there is one book I read in my teens which I have always looked for and could not find. I am happy to be able to order it here.
It is a story of simple young love which is thwarted by a number of societal rules...and as we watch the two parallel lives unfold, we are startled, near the end, to watch them pass one another again...our emotions never recover. That is why I must read it again as I ender old age myself.
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This book is a delightful and enchanting story
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I first read this book as an almost high school freshman; it stayed with me through the years and I had to 'find' it again through the same library almost 30 years later. The story has not lost any of its power and charm; the love and constancy of Amalia and Matthew for each other, and their ability to carry on despite separation, hardship and heartbreak is still a strong story. The story is a thorough, clear picture of the life of a settler, when what we now call the midwest was wilderness. Duty, the ... Read More
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