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Frederick Philip Grove was born Felix Paul Grove at Radomno in West Prussia (now a part of Poland) in 1879. Raised in Hamburg and educated at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Munich, he began his career as a poet and translator into German of many English and French writers, including Balzac, Flaubert, Gide, Swift, and Wilde. His first novel, Fanny Essler, appeared in 1905; his second, Maurermeister Ihle’s Haus (Mastermason Ihle’s House), in the following year. He left Germany in 1909 for the United States.
In 1912, under the new name of Frederick Philip Grove, he began teaching school in Manitoba, and continued in that profession until 1924.
Grove’s first book in English, Over Prairie Trails, is a sequence of seven sketches of his weekly trips through the Manitoba countryside. His first novel in English, Settlers of the Marsh, establishes the essentially tragic pattern of his fiction, the heroic pioneers who seek domestic and material happiness but seldom realize their goals.
Grove’s autobiography, In Search of Myself, begins with a fictitious account of his early life in Europe and moves on to a largely accurate presentation of his life in Canada.
In 1929 Grove left Manitoba to accept a job with a publishing firm in Ottawa. In 1931 he settled on a farm near Simcoe, Ontario, where he spent the final years of his life.
Frederick Philip Grove died in Simcoe, Ontario, in 1948.
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- PublisherNew Canadian Library
- Publication date1961
- ISBN 10 0771091192
- ISBN 13 9780771091193
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages333
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Grove, Frederick Philip THE MASTER OF THE MILL Toronto, ON; McClelland and Stewart Ltd. 1967 NF 333pp. 12mo. Cover does show shelf wear with obvious sun damage along the spine. Edges show wear with a very small tear on the back. Corners and spine are lightly bumped and spine shows some staining. Previous owner wrote their name and the date at the top of the half title page. Text is age toned but otherwise clean and binding holds tight. Overall book is in near fine condition and has lasted very well. Seller Inventory # 021354
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