Showing results for "Wheat" in Literature & Fiction

Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans, or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties. He struggles to come to terms with his deepest beliefs and his place in the world.

Lacking gun fights and horses that appear in other Zane Grey novels, this story is nonetheless just as captivating. Young wheat farmer Kurt Dorn is at odds with his father over his plan to leave the farm and enlist in the army to fight in World War One. Wheat crops are needed to feed the troops and the nation. When unscrupulous union organizers with foreign ties appear on the scene, a battle just as dramatic forces Kurt to take action that leads to life-changing decisions.

Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a work of art" and "arresting".

The summer of 1919 is now over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, harvesting the wheat. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindle stiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of bounty and progress. But with the wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man and who believes he has a holy calling to water the newly plucked earth with blood.

Throughout history generations of young men have fought in wars started by old men. There is no experience other than combat that makes a more lasting or life changing impression on a man or woman. The majority who have seen the battlefield saw combat before their 25th birthday, and many who did never got to celebrate that anniversary. Those who do come back are forever changed. Krebs in Hemmingway's "Soldier's Home" for instance.

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West is a compelling collection of Frank Norris’ short stories, exploring themes of greed, ambition, and survival. From financial corruption to love and desperation, these stories paint vivid pictures of both frontier and urban struggles.

Au cœur du Paris étincelant de la Belle Époque, Gigi raconte l’histoire d’une jeune fille vive et audacieuse, formée par sa grand-mère et sa tante à devenir une femme raffinée et accomplie. Pourtant, Gigi refuse de se conformer aux attentes traditionnelles : son esprit libre et son humour piquant la rendent unique. Elle bouscule les conventions avec une spontanéité désarmante et revendique son indépendance. L’arrivée dans sa vie de Gaston Lachaille, un riche séducteur lassé des mondanités, fait naître une relation aussi imprévisible que captivante.

Una periodista de televisió establerta a Barcelona, que segueix de prop la guerra dels Balcans, torna durant tres dies al seu poble natal per assistir a l'enterro del seu avi i per recuperar, sense preveure-ho, una història que li és pròpia. «Una mort dolça i una vetlla a l'antiga, honor a un cadàver de cent anys. I una història que es comença a contar, sola». La palmera de blat (publicada per primer cop el 1995) és precisament aquesta història: la del poble agrícola de Salavai i els canvis que ha sofert en els últims anys.

Sous le soleil brûlant d’un été en bord de mer, Phil et Vinca, deux adolescents liés par une amitié d’enfance, découvrent les premiers troubles de l’amour et du désir. Entre les jeux innocents de l’enfance et les mystères de l’âge adulte, leur relation vacille, tiraillée entre passion naissante et innocence perdue.