Project Gutenberg 2014-12-07 Public domain in the USA. 73 Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson) 1853 1937 Howe, Edgar Watson Howe, Ed The Story of a Country Town Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) "The Story of a Country Town" by E. W. Howe is a novel written in the late 19th century. The book offers a fictional account of life in a small American town, with particular focus on the dynamics of its residents, their struggles, and the influence of religion on their lives. The story is narrated by Ned Westlock, the only son of the stern Rev. John Westlock, which suggests that his perspective will shape the depiction of his father's rigid beliefs and their impact on the community. At the start of the novel, the narrator reflects on his upbringing in Fairview, a prairie district where his family settled among other farmers seeking a better life. He describes the bleak atmosphere of the town, where the influence of his father's strict and unforgiving religious ideology seems to contribute to the general discontent of its residents. The opening chapters introduce key characters, including his father, who cultivates a hard and laborious religion, and Jo Erring, his imaginative friend who aspires to become a miller. Through Ned's observations of life at Fairview, readers are privy to the struggles, ambitions, and interpersonal relationships that define this rural community, setting the stage for deeper explorations of themes such as family, faith, and individuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Fiction 793146 793147 2024-09-20T03:50:29.299488 2023-09-20T13:55:50.634970 text/html text/html 797636 2020-06-28T16:07:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 294984 2020-06-28T16:07:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 306052 2024-09-20T03:50:37.083414 application/epub+zip 318010 2024-09-20T03:50:30.223429 application/epub+zip 310885 2024-09-20T03:50:29.779392 application/epub+zip 533939 2024-09-20T03:50:43.221402 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 478910 2024-09-20T03:50:36.640363 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 472302 2022-09-21T15:18:23.076189 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 759775 2024-09-20T03:50:28.373471 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 759627 2014-12-07T11:18:20 text/plain; charset=utf-8 274934 2014-12-07T11:18:24 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 17626 2024-09-20T03:50:43.355339 application/rdf+xml 4299 2024-09-20T03:50:29.854430 image/jpeg 1161 2024-09-20T03:50:29.817422 image/jpeg 294038 2024-09-20T03:50:29.373404 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog