A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich (English) Paperback Book

Description: A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich Amid the rough-and-tumble world of frontier Iowa, eighteen-year-old Abbie Mackenzie treasured a secret dream. And while dreams don't always come true, Abbie finds love and laughter in a story that has captivated generations. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When A Lantern in Her Hand came out in 1928, critics took little notice, but people everywhere soon discovered it. By the end of 1919, even as the Great Depression set in, Bess Streeter Aldrichs novel was in its twenty-first printing. Now translated into over twenty languages, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. It is the classic story of a pioneer woman. Bess Streeter Aldrich knew what she was writing about. Her protagonist, a strong-minded pioneer woman named Abbie Deal, was modeled on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest. In A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be state of Nebraska. There, in 1865, she marries and settles into a sod house of her own. The novel describes Abbies years of child-raising, of making a frontier home able to withstand every adversity. A disciplined writer knowledgeable about true stories of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys the strength of everyday things, the surprise of familiar faces, and the look of the unspoiled landscape during different seasons. Refusing to be broken by hard experience, Abbie sets a joyful example for her family - and for her readers. This Bison Book edition includes Bess Streeter Aldrichs own story of how she came to write A Lantern in Her Hand. Author Biography Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954) became one of Americas best-loved and most widely read writers in the first half of the twentieth century. "A Lantern in Her Hand," her most famous novel, has remained a favorite since 1928; it is also available in a Bison Books edition. Review "Piercingly beautiful. . . . Aldrichs pioneer woman was based on her mother, and the integrity of her depiction of life in a sod house in the late nineteeth-century Nebraska speaks to her readers. . . . In her own introduction Aldrich writes of wanting to tell her mothers story after her mothers death: Other writers had depicted the Midwests early days, but so often they had pictured their women as gaunt, browbeaten creatures, despairing women whom life seemed to defeat. That was not my mother. Not with her courage, her humor, her nature that would cause her to say at the end of her life: We had the best time in the world."--Belles Lettres "The language is good and sturdy and dotted with imaginative metaphors and similes (Silence, so deep, that it roared in its vast vacuum). If the book tries to crowd too much life into 300 pages, well, there was a lot of life: We old pioneers, Abbie says at the end, we dreamed dreams into the country."--Milwaukee Journal Review Quote "Piercingly beautiful. . . . Aldrichs pioneer woman was based on her mother, and the integrity of her depiction of life in a sod house in the late nineteeth-century Nebraska speaks to her readers. . . . In her own introduction Aldrich writes of wanting to tell her mothers story after her mothers death: Other writers had depicted the Midwests early days, but so often they had pictured their women as gaunt, browbeaten creatures, despairing women whom life seemed to defeat. That was not my mother. Not with her courage, her humor, her nature that would cause her to say at the end of her life: We had the best time in the world."-- Belles Lettres "The language is good and sturdy and dotted with imaginative metaphors and similes (Silence, so deep, that it roared in its vast vacuum). If the book tries to crowd too much life into 300 pages, well, there was a lot of life: We old pioneers, Abbie says at the end, we dreamed dreams into the country."-- Milwaukee Journal Details ISBN0140384286 Author Bess Streeter Aldrich Pages 256 Publisher Puffin Books Language English ISBN-10 0140384286 ISBN-13 9780140384284 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1997 Publication Date 1997-04-30 Audience Age 13 Imprint Puffin Place of Publication Hawthorn Country of Publication Australia Short Title LANTERN IN HER HAND Series Puffin Classics (Paperback) Birth 1881 Death 1954 DOI 10.1604/9780140384284 Audience Children/Juvenile UK Release Date 1997-04-01 NZ Release Date 1997-03-31 AU Release Date 1997-03-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137962240;

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