“Most issues on a farm return to the issue of keeping up appearances. Farmers extrapolate quickly from the farm to the farmer. A farmer looks […]
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Chapter 54: “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)
“He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely […]
Chapter 47: “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck (1940)
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” When I read John Steinbeck’s masterpiece, […]
Chapter 22: “Now In November” by Josephine Johnson (1935)
“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.” Now that […]
Chapter 21: “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck (1932)
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out […]