Small towns, farms, and mountains

27 books

'Smiles': A Rose of the CumberlandsEliot H. Robinson · 1921A 1921 illustrated novel by Eliot H. Robinson about a young girl known as Smiles, a mountain child of the Cumberland region, and Donald MacDonald, a city-born doctor who becomes lost while hunting in the mountains and enters the lives of the local people.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Romance of Billy-Goat HillAlice Caldwell Hegan Rice · 1912A 1912 illustrated romance novel by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, set on a Kentucky hill where the aging Colonel Carsey, his spirited daughter Miss Lady, and their old mansion Thornwood face changes brought by a visiting city man named Don Morley.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Blue-grass and BroadwayMaria Thompson Daviess · 1916A 1916 romantic novel by Maria Thompson Daviess about Patricia Adair, a Kentucky woman who needs money urgently, and Broadway theatrical producer Godfrey Vandeford, whose joint venture becomes a great adventure.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Children of the desertLouis Dodge · 1917A 1917 novel set on the Texas-Mexico border in the late 1880s, following the marriage of Harboro, a railroad man turned clerk, and Sylvia Little, the pretty daughter of a man with furtive ways, in the desert town of Eagle Pass.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned FarmAlbert Bigelow Paine · 1904A 1919 autobiographical account (copyright page shows 1919 despite 1904 date) in which the author and his family buy an abandoned old farmhouse and thirty-one acres in the Connecticut countryside, and set about restoring the neglected place as their home.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Ethan FromeEdith Wharton · 1911A 1911 novel by Edith Wharton, told through a frame narrator who pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a crippled New England farmer in the bleak town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, whose mysterious past haunts the local townspeople.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln · 1922A 1922 novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln set in a Cape Cod town, following retired sea captain Sears Kendrick, recovering from an accident at his sister's boarding household, and young George Kent, a store clerk studying law, amid small-town life.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Flamsted quarriesMary E. Waller · 1910A 1910 novel by Mary E. Waller that begins with immigrants arriving in New York Harbor and follows young Aileen, a vaudeville child singer, whose story unfolds against a quarry town setting.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Janet of the DunesHarriet T. Comstock · 1908A 1908 novel by Harriet T. Comstock set on the dunes of Long Island's eastern shore, telling the story of Janet, a spirited seventeen-year-old girl raised by Cap'n Billy of a United States Life Saving Station, as he seeks to give her a place among mainland society.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Joan of Arc of the North WoodsHolman Day · 1922A 1922 novel by Holman Day set in the northern timber country, where young lumberman Ward Latisan clashes with a corporation seeking to monopolize regional logging, a conflict presided over by the novel's titular heroine.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Main StreetSinclair Lewis · 1920A 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis about Carol Milford, a restless young college graduate, and life in Gopher Prairie, a small Minnesota farming town whose Main Street the author presents as typical of small-town America everywhere.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Mountain Blood: A NovelJoseph Hergesheimer · 1915A 1915 novel set in the isolated mountain community of Greenstream, following stage driver Gordon Makimmon, whose routine journeys carry local residents, a Catholic priest, and a mysterious stranger through the insular valley and its tense social world.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Mr. OppAlice Caldwell Hegan Rice · 1909An illustrated 1909 novel by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice about D. Webster Opp, a small, vain, endlessly ambitious youngKentuckian who returns to his hometown for his stepfather's funeral, brimming with grandiose schemes and dreams of easy wealth.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

My ÁntoniaWilla Cather · 1918A 1918 novel framed as the recollections of Jim Burden, an adult recalling his Nebraska prairie childhood, centered on his friendship with Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant girl growing up in a small farming town.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Penny of Top Hill TrailBelle Kanaris Maniates · 1914A 1914 Western novel by Belle Kanaris Maniates. A young cowboy returns from Chicago with troubles and the memory of a young girl he met in a dance hall, which leads to the story of Penny on Top Hill Trail.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

SummerEdith Wharton · 1917A 1917 novel by Edith Wharton about Charity Royall, a young woman raised in the isolated New England village of North Dormer, where her life as a library custodian is disrupted by the arrival of a young stranger one June afternoon.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tess of the Storm CountryGrace Miller White · 1909A 1909 novel set among squatter fishermen on the shores of Cayuga Lake near Ithaca, New York, who are scorned by the town's residents. The story centers on Tessibel Skinner, the passionate, ragged daughter of a fisherman, amid growing conflict between the two communities.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Blood of the ConquerorsHarvey Fergusson · 1921A 1921 novel by Harvey Fergusson about Ramon Delcasar, a proud young Mexican American lawyer from a prominent Southwestern family who returns home after law school and confronts racial prejudice against his heritage in his New Mexico community.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Brown MouseHerbert Quick · 1915A 1915 novel about Jim Irwin, a farmhand and aspiring rural schoolteacher, whose life begins to change after Jennie Woodruff, the farmer's daughter, dismisses his prospects with a scornful "Humph," spurring him to seek a better future.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Green DolphinSara Ware Bassett · 1929A 1929 comic Cape Cod novel about Asaph Holmes, a shy, confirmed bachelor whose chaotic obsession with horticulture and newspaper clippings repeatedly forces him to summon the stern housekeeper Hannah Dole to restore his overrun cottage.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on FootHolman Day · 1915A 1915 novel by Holman Day following a mysterious wanderer who calls himself Walker Farr as he travels on foot through the countryside, encountering a farmer, a stranded motor party, and an old man along the road, his past and purpose left intriguingly unexplained.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Rainy Day Railroad WarHolman Day · 1912A 1912 novel by Holman Day about Rodney Parker, a young railroad assistant engineer whose habit of championing mistreated workers, including immigrant laborers on his construction camp, draws him into conflict on the P. K. & R. railroad.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Roof TreeCharles Neville Buck · 1921A 1921 illustrated novel by Charles Neville Buck set in the Appalachian mountains, in which a young man takes the blame for his sister's killing of her abusive husband and flees across the border into Kentucky to escape the law and start a new life.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The San Rosario RanchMaud Howe Elliott · 1902A novel by Maud Howe Elliott about Millicent Almsford, a wealthy young woman who leaves Europe to join the household of her half-brother at a California ranch, where the Deerings welcome her into their family life.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Secret of the Storm CountryGrace Miller White · 1919A 1919 illustrated romance novel by Grace Miller White, a sequel to "Tess of the Storm Country," following Tessibel Skinner, daughter of a squatter on Cayuga Lake, as she faces love, hardship, and secrets in New York's Storm Country.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Wall BetweenSara Ware Bassett · 1922A 1920s rural romance novel set on neighboring New Hampshire farms, where Martin Howe and Ellen Webster continue a generations-old feud over an old boundary wall between their properties until events force them to reconsider their long-standing hostility.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Wind BlowethDonn Byrne · 1922A 1922 illustrated novel by Donn Byrne, with pictures by George Bellows, following the boyhood and life of Shane Campbell in the Antrim countryside of Ireland, portraying an Irish community marked by folklore, Gaelic tradition, love of land, and wandering.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية