My Year in a Log Cabin E-Book

William Dean Howells

• Herausgeber: DigiCat
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

In 'My Year in a Log Cabin' by William Dean Howells, the reader is immersed in a vivid and detailed account of the author's experience living in a log cabin for a year. Howells' writing style is characterized by its realism and attention to detail, allowing readers to feel as though they are experiencing the cabin life alongside him. This book represents a departure from Howells' typical literary works, which often focused on social issues and manners in urban settings. 'My Year in a Log Cabin' provides a unique insight into nature and simplicity, contrasting with the complexities of modern society. Howells' descriptions of the natural surroundings and the challenges of cabin life are both engaging and thought-provoking. William Dean Howells, a prominent American writer, was known for his realistic portrayals of American life in the late 19th century. His interest in the cabin life and the natural world likely stemmed from a desire to explore simplicity in contrast to the rapid industrialization and urban expansion of the time. I recommend 'My Year in a Log Cabin' to readers who enjoy nature writing, realistic portrayals of daily life, and reflections on the simplicity of rural living.

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William Dean Howells

My Year in a Log Cabin

 

EAN 8596547378952

DigiCat, 2022 Contact: [email protected]

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In the fall of the year 1850 my father removed with his family from the city of D——, where we had been living, to a property on the Little Miami River, to take charge of a saw-mill and grist-mill, and superintend their never-accomplished transformation into paper-mills. The property belonged to his brothers—physicians and druggists—who were to follow later, when they had disposed of their business in town. My father left a disastrous newspaper enterprise behind him when he came out to apply his mechanical taste and his knowledge of farming to the care of their place. Early in the century his parents had brought him to Ohio from Wales, and his boyhood was passed in the new country, where pioneer customs and traditions were still rife, and for him it was like renewing the wild romance of those days to take up once more the life in a log-cabin interrupted by forty years’ sojourn in matter-of-fact dwellings of frame and brick.

He had a passion for nature as tender and genuine and as deeply moralized as that of the English poets, by whom it had been nourished; and he taught us children all that he felt for the woods and fields and open skies; all our walks had led into them and under them. It was the fond dream of his boys to realize the trials and privations which he had painted for them in such rosy hues, and even if the only clap-boarded dwelling on the property had not been occupied by the miller, we should have disdained it for the log-cabin in which we took up our home till we could build a new house.