The Fields~Conrad Richter~1946~Stated First Edition~Knopf~Rare~Vintage~Free Shipping

The Fields~Conrad Richter~1946~Stated First Edition~Knopf~Rare~Vintage~Free Shipping.

Here is a rare find of an American classic by Conrad Richter. It is a stated first edition from 1946. This is a former library book (see photos). No markings or inscriptions on the content pages of the book. A unique vintage book that would make a great gift book!

The Fields is a 1946 novel by Conrad Richter and the second work in his trilogy The Awakening Land. It continues the story of the characters Portius and Sayward Luckett Wheeler begun in the novel The Trees.

The Fields is set on the frontier in a fictional county near what is now Ross County, Ohio. Its action begins almost immediately after the conclusion of The Trees, a few weeks after the marriage of protagonist Sayward Luckett and her husband, lawyer Portius Wheeler. The action of the novel spans a much longer period of time than its predecessor, covering approximately 20 years of their marriage as the couple become parents to a very large family.

Conrad Michael Richter was born in 1890 in Tremont, Pennsylvania, near Pottsville, to John Absalom Richter, a Lutheran minister, and Charlotte Esther (née Henry) Richter. His grandfather, uncle and great-uncle were also Lutheran ministers, and descended from German colonial immigrants. As a child, Richter lived with his family in several small central Pennsylvania mining towns, where he encountered descendants of pioneers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who shared family stories. These inspired him later to write historical fiction set on changing American frontiers. Attending local public schools, Richter finished his formal education when he graduated at age fifteen from high school.

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