Good stories about the midwest area and farming people. Had to read it for English in 10th grade, I think, but worthwhile anyway! ( )

1689 Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland (read 12 Jan 1982) This supposedly is the only "important" book Garland wrote. It is his first book, published in 1893. It is a book of short stories. Some were not bad. My favorite was "Uncle Ethan Ripley," about a farmer who lets a patent medicine salesman paint a sign on his barn for 25 bottles of the medicine. I found it funny--Garland is seldom funny. Some of the stories are, of course, stark, but not all of them. ( )

Liked this book when young (before 1974) ( )

With illustrations by H.T. Carpenter. With an introduction by W.D. Howells. This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1898 edition by Herbert S. Stone & Company, Chicago & New York. (Product Description)