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Early Autumn
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Early Autumn" by Louis Bromfield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Rains Came
In the town of Ranchipur, four people find their lives become entwined by unexpected feelings and events they cannot control. Tom Ransome, son of an English earl, is living a painter's life. He is pursued by a flirtatious young English girl who adores him. Lady Esketh is a beautiful bored sophisticate and Tom's former girlfriend. And Major Rama is the dedicated Hindu surgeon who captures her heart. When a catastrophic earthquake and flood bring disaster to India, all their lives are forever transformed by the striking clash between good and evil, duty and forbidden love.
The World We Live In
Nine short stories, set in various locales (the U.S., Monte Carlo, Switzerland...) and with various sets of characters, but all showing Louis Bromfield's creative powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writing.
The Planter of Modern Life: How an Ohio Farm Boy Conquered Literary Paris, Fed the Lost Generation, and Sowed the Seeds of the Organic Food Movement
Winner of the 2021 IACP Award for Literary or Historical Food Writing Longlisted for the 2021 Plutarch Award How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America’s most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement. Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire America’s first generation of organic farmers and popularize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. A ...
What Became of Anna Bolton
This is a Bromfield in the class with Until the Day Break, definitely not top drawer. There's a bit of diluted Mrs. Parkington in the blend, as poor girl makes good—but Annie Scanlon from the wrong side of the tracks had no motive other than greed and revenge, while Mrs. Parkington built steadily towards an ideal. Lewisburg had wrecked Annie's youth; Lewisburg must be shown. So when Annie's one love dies, she buries her youth with him, and eventually gains her end—money and more money—by marrying a rich old man, who leaves hr a fortune which she spends lavishly in the capitals of Europe, seeing and being seen, known as Anna Bolton. A gentlewoman who needs a job is her mentor and guide. They are in Paris when invasion catches them; they attempt flight, but the strafing of the road south strips Anna of the trappings of the unreal world in which she lives, and brings her back again to the Annie she had been. She sets up a canteen over the border of unoccupied France...
Wild is the River
A fine historical romance-adventure novel set in Union-occupied New Orleans after the Civil War.
The Farm
he Farm is a 1933 novel by Louis Bromfield. Written just before Bromfield's return from decades of living and writing in Europe, the novel reflects the agrarian interests that would dominate the author's thinking during the last two decades of his life.
The Man Who Had Everything
"The story of a rich and successful playwright, playboy of society, facing in middle life the emptiness of his grasp on real life, the incompleteness of his own development. The background shifts from New York to France, with an abortive attempt to recapture a youthful dream; then back again, with perhaps a deeper understanding of his own reasons for failure." --Kirkus Reviews
