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A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin GARLAND (1860 - 1940) Genre(s): Culture & Heritage, Family Life Read by: Greg W., Inah Derby in English Parts: Part 1 https://youtu.be/b2k5occJo-c Part 3 https://youtu.be/wp-_5yPZ8lo Chapters: 00:00:00 - 19 - 19 - End of School Days 00:25:31 - 20 - 20 - The Land of the Dakotas 00:52:52 - 21 - 21 - The Grasshopper and the Ant 01:32:04 - 22 - 22 - We Discover New England 01:56:34 - 23 - 23 - Coasting Down Mt Washington 02:12:59 - 24 - 24 - Tramping, NY, Washington & Chicago 02:41:25 - 25 - 25 - The Land of the Straddle-Bug 03:16:42 - 26 - 26 - On to Boston 03:46:32 - 27 - 27 - Enter a Friend 04:26:49 - 28 - 28 - A Visit to the West 05:10:37 - 29 - 29 - I Join the Anti-Poverty Brigade 05:52:08 - 30 - 30 - My Mother is Stricken 06:19:03 - 31 - 31 - Main Travelled Roads 06:40:16 - 32 - 32 - The Spirit of Revolt In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human struggle with nature or the things she will withhold unless they are forced from her by man's tireless toil and mighty mechanism, and in the vision he knows a battle-joy as distinctive of this Son of the Middle Border as his fidelity to the sordid and squalid details of the campaign, or his exultation of the beauty of the West which he has so passionately hated and finally so passionately loves. As you read the story of his life you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.(Introduction by William Dean Howells, New York Times review, August 26, 1917) More information: http://librivox.org/a-son-of-the-middle-border-by-hamlin-garland/