Louis Bromfield

The connections between earth and humans are interwoven throughout as Louis Bromfield writes about farming with elegance and joy. And Bromfield skillfully portrays that marriage between dream and reality that is so necessary in working the land as he writes, "Wait until Spring comes!" This beautiful new edition of Pleasant Valley is as useful now, maybe even more so, than when it was first published in the early 1940s.

A powerful story of privilege, passion, and the price of escape from society's expectations. Set amid the glittering excess of the Jazz Age, The Green Bay Tree explores the hidden corruption beneath wealth and respectability. In the elegant drawing rooms and manicured estates of 1920s America, young Julian Shane lives under the suffocating control of his domineering father-a man determined to mold him into a perfect reflection of ambition and status....

"The novel is set in the fictional Massachusetts town of Durham shortly after World War I. The Pentland family is rich and part of the upper class, but their world is rapidly changing. The old Congregational church the Pentlands long favored has disbanded as more and more WASPs have left Durham, replaced by immigrant Roman Catholics with very different religious customs. The Pentlands once ruled upper-class society in Durham, and still do. But even...

aA multigenerational novel tracing the lives of several families on a farm in north central Ohio and portraying the changes brought by immigration, industrialization, and the development of American society.

Story of an army major, a well-to-do mid-westerner, who is stationed on a small island in the Pacific-- WorldCat.