Over Prairie Trails: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States: Volume 2 - Softcover

Grove, Frederick Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406935344 ISBN 13: 9781406935349

Publisher: Hard Press, 2006

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

Frederick Philip Grove was born Felix Paul Grove at Radomno in West Prussia (now a part of Poland) in 1879. Raised in Hamburg and educated at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Munich, he began his career as a poet and translator into German of many English and French writers, including Balzac, Flaubert, Gide, Swift, and Wilde. His first novel, Fanny Essler, appeared in 1905; his second, Maurermeister Ihle s Haus (Mastermason Ihle s House), in the following year. He left Germany in 1909 for the United States.
In 1912, under the new name of Frederick Philip Grove, he began teaching school in Manitoba, and continued in that profession until 1924.
Grove s first book in English, Over Prairie Trails, is a sequence of seven sketches of his weekly trips through the Manitoba countryside. His first novel in English, Settlers of the Marsh, establishes the essentially tragic pattern of his fiction, the heroic pioneers who seek domestic and material happiness but seldom realize their goals.
Grove s autobiography, In Search of Myself, begins with a fictitious account of his early life in Europe and moves on to a largely accurate presentation of his life in Canada.
In 1929 Grove left Manitoba to accept a job with a publishing firm in Ottawa. In 1931 he settled on a farm near Simcoe, Ontario, where he spent the final years of his life.
Frederick Philip Grove died in Simcoe, Ontario, in 1948."

From the Back Cover

In this book, Grove recalls his solitary and often perilous journeys by gorse and wagon over the thirty-odd miles of Manitoba countryside that separated him from his wife and child during a year of hardship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hard Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406935344
• ISBN 13: 9781406935349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92