Project Gutenberg 2005-06-01 Public domain in the USA. 95 Foote, Mary Hallock 1847 1938 Foote, Mrs. Arthur DeWint Hallock, Mary The Desert and the Sown Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. Text file produced by Eric Eldred, Clay Massei and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "The Desert and the Sown" by Mary Hallock Foote is a novel likely written in the late 19th century. The narrative unfolds in a rich tapestry of social dynamics, character interactions, and themes of love and conflict centered around the lives of military families engaged in the everyday realities of their surroundings. The early chapters introduce a range of characters, including Colonel Middleton and his daughter Moya, as well as the Bogardus family, laying the groundwork for impending relationships, familial tensions, and dynamics influenced by social class and personal aspirations. At the start of the book, we find Colonel Middleton grappling with the challenges of hosting Mrs. Bogardus, the future mother-in-law of his daughter Moya. The conversation reveals their differing perspectives on social class, duties, and personal ambitions, setting a tone of satire and introspection. Meanwhile, Moya's spirited personality contrasts with the heavier themes introduced through her interactions with her future husband, Paul Bogardus, and the burdens of their respective legacies. The opening scenes expertly blend humor and tension, hinting at deeper conflicts and relationships that will unfold as the story progresses, setting up themes of love, societal expectation, and the quest for identity amidst the complexities of frontier life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en New York (State) -- Fiction West (U.S.) -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 429670 429671 2024-10-04T06:25:29.228397 2023-10-04T06:31:00.077274 text/html text/html 447125 2021-02-26T00:07:51 text/html; charset=utf-8 153365 2021-02-26T00:07:55 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 228820 2024-10-04T06:25:38.958342 application/epub+zip 234192 2024-10-04T06:25:33.298388 application/epub+zip 218206 2024-10-04T06:25:31.368395 application/epub+zip 423530 2024-10-04T06:25:43.249351 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393208 2024-10-04T06:25:37.951346 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 353324 2022-09-04T09:30:40.561836 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 361859 361722 2024-10-04T06:25:28.072428 2023-10-04T06:30:59.173209 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 367139 2018-03-15T10:42:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 145948 2018-03-16T14:26:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 361571 2013-05-19T12:46:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 145220 2013-05-19T12:47:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 361562 2013-05-19T12:46:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 145192 2013-05-19T12:47:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23757 2024-10-04T06:25:43.820315 application/rdf+xml 13301 2024-10-04T06:25:32.319386 image/jpeg 3725 2024-10-04T06:25:31.846446 image/jpeg 223179 2024-10-04T06:25:29.263412 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 en.wikipedia