Hamlin Garland: 67 books

In this 1904 novel, Garland sets aside his usual Midwestern themes for a tale of the theater in which the hero—a pioneering playwright—is captivated by a talented yet wild-spirited leading lady. 

I will wash my brain in the splendid breeze, I will lay my cheek to the northern sun, I will drink the breath of the mossy trees, And the clouds shall meet me one by one. I will fling the scholar's pen aside, And grasp once more the bronco's rein, And I will ride and ride and ride, Till the rain is snow,...

In the summer of 1887, after having been three years in Boston and six years absent from my old home in northern Iowa, I found myself with money enough to pay my railway fare to Ordway, South Dakota, where my father and mother were living, and as it cost very little extra to go by way of Dubuque and...

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HER ADOPTIVE PARENTS. “Ans, the next time you twist hay f’r the fire, I wish’t you’d dodge the damp spots,” said the cook, rising from a prolonged scrutiny of the stove and the bread in the oven. His pose was threatening. “Cooks are always grumblin’,” calmly remarked Anson, drawing on...

In this gripping story of love and sacrifice, it’s love at first sight for Bertie – a married woman – and Ben. Bertie’s husband suffers from a weak heart, while Ben’s fiancée is dying of consumption. Facing the inevitable, Ben’s fiancée conspires with Bertie’s husband, hatching a plan that leaves Bertie and Ben free to marry.

The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop is a western novel first published in 1902.

This 1911 novel features a spiritual medium who sacrifices to make a better life for her son, while keeping him ignorant of her profession. When she is the subject of a lawsuit in which she must prove her claims, her manifestations of supernatural power win her skeptical son over . . . though at a tragic price.

AFTER the appointment with Miss Merival reached him (through the hand of her manager), young Douglass grew feverishly impatient of the long days which lay between. Waiting became a species of heroism. Each morning he reread his manuscript and each evening found him at the theatre, partly to while...