The Great Meadow - Softcover

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843913887 ISBN 13: 9781843913887

Publisher: Hesperus Press, 2013

Synopsis

First published in 1930 and shortlisted for the Pulitzer, the winner of Hesperus' "Uncover a Classic" competition is a long-neglected American classic, a romantic saga of young love on the Kentucky trail in colonial America

 

Diony Hall has waited for many years for her betrothed to return to marry her. Trying to fathom the nature of identity and her place in the vast newly created America, Diony spends her time at the family hearthside, combining her love of reading with her roles within the family circle and the daily tasks on the homestead. When Berk Jarvis returns and they are married, they both bid farewell to Virginia, family, community, and security to head out to found a new family and a new life together in the wilderness of Kentucky. What follows is a breathtaking story of love and death, as the settlers cross the Appalachian mountains and struggle to carve a new life on the unforgiving frontier at the mercy of shortages, harsh winters, and the perpetual danger of Indian attack. This astonishing novel, with its rhythmic prose, has too long been forgotten.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Elizabeth Madox Roberts was that rare thing, a true artist. But how many artists have even a shadow of a masterpiece. . .? And how few have left the sense of literature on almost every page. She was one of the indispensables."--Robert Penn Warren

About the Author:

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881–1941) was a Kentucky novelist and poet. Though her writing is comparable to Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren, she also possesses a vital link to succeeding generations of female authors such as Kate Chopin and Toni Morrison.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1843913887
• ISBN 13: 9781843913887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200