Conrad Richter

• Jun-1937
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• Jul-1940
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“They moved along in the bobbing, springy gait of a family that followed the woods as some families follow the sea.” In that first sentence Conrad Richter sets the mood of this magnificent epic of the American wilderness. Toward the close of the ...

• Jun-1946
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Of this second novel in Conrad Richter’s great trilogy, Louis Bromfield wrote: “The Fields continues the life of Sayward after her strange marriage to the ‘educated’ New Englander Portious, through the raising of their family of eight childre...

• 1950
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In this superb novel -- the longest Mr. Richter has written -- Sayward, the eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her friends, American pioneers, from the ways of the wilder...

• Jul-1953
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HE HAD BEEN BORN INTO A FRONTIER FAMILY, BUT ALL HE COULD REMEMBER, ALL THAT HE LOVED, WAS INDIAN. Once upon a time, his name had been John Cameron Butler, but now it was True Son. His adopted father, a great warrior, had renamed him Lenni Lenape ...

• Jun-1957
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• Apr-1966
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• Aug-1966
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• Sep-1978
• / Historical
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The powerful story-telling voice that has carried so many readers back into the world of the American frontier is heard again in these eight tales of pioneers and pioneer days by the author of The Sea of Grass, The Light in the Forest, The Waters of ...

• Jun-1979
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• Nov-1980
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This novel by one of America’s foremost writers -- and perhaps the most truly American of all -- is rock-based in values and virtues which most of the time seem to have disappeared from our fiction, if not from American life itself. The story of a ...

• Feb-1998
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Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress at Washington. Captain Free, they sa...

• Dec-2002
• / Literary
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“May it never go out of print again”: An old man returns to his now-submerged Pennsylvania hometown in this National Book Award�"winning classic (The Philadelphia Inquirer).   The Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Light in the Forest a...

• Jan-2011
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“DARK?” murmured Matson Bell mildly. “You don’t know what darkness is! You’ve never been in the Dark Places.”“The Dark Places?” I repeated uneasily.The famous supernatural detective half-closed his eyes.“We haven’t had a call ther...

• Aug-2013
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An infinitely attractive human being -- a great lady, American-style -- comes alive in Conrad Richter’s wonderful new novel. She is Miss Alexandria Morley, and in her eighties -- a doughty warrior against creeping modernity and mediocrity. She...

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