Gene Stratton-Porter

A Girl of the Limberlost is considered a classic of Indiana literature. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp - at that time, a site of heavy logging and natural oil extraction. This Bildungsroman is structured as girl-meets-boy, girl-loses-boy, girl-undertakes-an-adventure-to-win-boy-back. The novel's heroine, Elnora Comstock, is an impoverished young woman who lives with her widowed mother, Katharine Comstock, on the edge of the Limberlost. Elnora faces cold neglect by her mother, a woman who feels ruined by the death of her husband, Robert Comstock, who drowned in quicksand in the swamp. Katharine blames Elnora for his death, because her husband died while she gave birth to their daughter and could not come to his rescue.

A Girl of the Limberlost is considered a classic of Indiana literature. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp - at that time, a site of heavy logging and natural oil extraction.

Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter. Michael O'Halloran is a 1915 novel by the American writer Gene Stratton-Porter. The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O'Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Gene Stratton-Porter's 1912 novel The Harvester focuses on David Langston, a young bachelor who lives in and makes his living from the swamps and forests of rural Indiana. A best-seller of the early 20th century, The Harvester combines romance and nature writing to demonstrate through David what a harmonious relationship between humans and the natural world could look like.

In the early twentieth century, Kate Bates is an anomaly--an independent "new woman" who rejects the privilege of urban life for the "moral, clean" lifestyle of the countryside. Through hard work, education, and self-reflection, the protagonist of Gene Stratton-Porter's 1918 novel accepts, on her own terms, her birthright as A Daughter of the Land.

At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1916 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.