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| Title | : | The Fields (The Awakening Land #2) |
| Author | : | Conrad Richter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 169 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1991 by Ohio University Press (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Literature |
Conrad Richter
Paperback | Pages: 169 pages Rating: 4.23 | 1211 Users | 113 Reviews
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Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) trace the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The Fields continues the saga of the Luckett family that began in The Trees. In The Fields, the oldest daughter, Sayward, has begun the long process of carving a small farm out of the forest. She bears eight children and weathers numerous challenges in this novel, which gives an excellent sense of what pioneer life was really like.The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist. The Town won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1951, and The Trees was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection after it was published. Richter also received the 1947 Ohioan Library Medal for the first two volumes of the trilogy.
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| Original Title: | The Fields |
| ISBN: | 0821409794 (ISBN13: 9780821409794) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Awakening Land #2 |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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Ratings: 4.23 From 1211 Users | 113 ReviewsPiece Of Books The Fields (The Awakening Land #2)
This book, written in 1946, is the second in Conrad Richter's trilogy "The Awakening Land." It is the story of Sayward and her husband Portius (a lawyer) and her eventually family of of eight children. It is also the story of the settling of a place in Ohio in the Northwest Territory, and of the daily homey and heartbreaking, dangerous happenings in a log house on farmland cleared and planted by hand... a farm in the mist of the tallest and thickest old trees that block the light of sun andThis is the second in Conrad Richters trilogy. As Saywards family grows having been settlers in the West, that is in the woods of Ohio described in the first book, The Trees they move to more community and develop farming in this book, The Fields. The transition is skillfully described and the family and now community interaction engages the reader creating interest in all the players lives.Conrad makes the subtle change from Trees to Fields apparent in the early paragraphs of this book showing
This book, the second in a trilogy, continues the story of Sayward and her growing clan as they continue to carve their lives out of the forests of Ohio, at the turn of the 19th century. Having hewn out a clearing for themselves, quite literally, the pioneers can now begin to look out on open fields of wheat and corn with a measure of hopefulness that they are making progress against the frontier. Even so the war rages on: no longer battling the dense forests, their open fields are perfect
3.5 StarsSecond novel in "The Awakening Land" series, the first being "The Trees".Here we have the forest slowly but surely coming under the thumb of civilization and Sayward's family expanding until she bears nine children by the end (and I believe more to come in book three).There is excitement in the form of snake bite and one horrible burn accident but overall I felt this book was tamer than its predecessor, almost as though the author was attempting to show that with civilization comes a
I love the writing style. Very informative, great characterization of strong woman in early American settlement, AND enjoyable.
A wonderful sequel to the first story in the trilogy, Trees. The reader is carried forward in time as the ancient forest yields to the settlers' axes and "civilization" begans in the Ohio territory. A wonderful story.
How have I lived this long and not known about Conrad Richter??? I absolutely LOVE his writing. Every single sentence is beyond what any normal writer could pen. He knows the time period, the place and especially the local language in a perfect way. Most of all, he seems to know the minds of the people who lived there then. It's brilliant writing. The 3 books in this series move to the Top of my favorites list. Wow. I can't wait to read the 3rd (The Town), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951.I
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