Hamlin Garland (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Hamlin Garland published in nearly every literary form—short stories, biography, autobiography, essays, plays, and poems. Several of his short stories, such as “Under the Lion’s Paw,” “A Soldier’s Return,” and “A Branch Road,” were much anthologized. His autobiographical quartet, A Son of the Middle Border (1917), A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921), Trail-Makers of the Middle Border (1926), and Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (1928), is a valuable recounting of life during the latter part of the...

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