Books like The Long Valley
Stories of the Salinas Valley, among them The Chrysanthemums, The Snake and Flight, and the four parts of The Red Pony.
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To a God Unknown
Joseph Wayne leaves his father's Vermont farm for a green valley in California, and comes to believe the great oak beside his new house holds his dead father's spirit.
The Red Pony
Jody Tiflin, a ten-year-old on his family's ranch in the Salinas Valley, is given a red pony colt to raise, the first of the lessons his childhood will teach him.
Selected Short Stories
Tagore's Bengali stories of the 1890s and after: a postmaster and the orphan girl who keeps house for him, a Kabuliwallah fruit-seller and a small girl, child brides and village clerks.
Wanderers
An ageing writer takes to the road as a labourer in rural Norway, working on farms and estates, and falls under the spell of a captain's wife at one of them.
The Tree of Man
Stan Parker clears a patch of bush outside Sydney around 1900, brings home his young wife Amy, and the two of them make a farm and a life together over fifty years.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Ten stories, among them a writer dying of gangrene in an African camp who looks back at the life he wasted, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, about a hunting safari.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
The Issa Valley
Thomas, a boy growing up with his grandparents in a river valley in the Lithuanian countryside after the First World War, learns about nature, faith and death.
Gap Creek
Julie Harmon, seventeen and used to doing a man's work on her family's farm, marries Hank Richards in the 1890s and moves with him to a house on Gap Creek, across the state line in South Carolina.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
Savushun
In Shiraz during the Second World War, with foreign armies occupying Iran, Zari watches her husband Yusof, a landowner, refuse to sell his grain to them.