{"product_id":"boy-life-on-the-prairie-9780803250703","title":"Boy Life on the Prairie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoy Life on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland's \u003ci\u003eA Son of the Middle Border\u003c\/i\u003e. The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R. McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of \u003ci\u003eBoy Life\u003c\/i\u003e, has overshadowed the \"earlier and better book of reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland's boyhood experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote \u003ci\u003eBoy Life on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e Garland was much closer to the subject than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in nineteenth-century America--those of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and Howells, for example--one is impressed with the thoroughness and precision of Garland's book. Aside from \u003ci\u003eMain-Travelled Roads\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoy Life\u003c\/i\u003e, is probably the best single book that Garland ever wrote.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction addressed \"To My Young Readers\" and the \"Author's Notes\" which appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn \u0026amp; Bacon. The forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W. Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction, Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of \u003ci\u003eBoy Life\u003c\/i\u003e and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were Garland's first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with \u003ci\u003eA Son of the Middle Border\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamlin Garland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 6.12w x 1.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803250703\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40139360764019,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_00e9ee34-6238-4e95-add4-74eb1b107999.jpg?v=1654434494","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/boy-life-on-the-prairie-9780803250703","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}