Country Life Fiction Books

Barren Ground

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

James Ellgood, whose mother was a McNab, owned Green Acres, the flourishing stock farm on the other side of the railroad. It is true that an uncle in the far West had left him a small fortune, and for..

The Bagpipers

George Sand

I dedicate this novel to you, my dear Eugène, not to give you a proof of motherly affection, which you do not need to make you feel at home in my family, but to leave with you, after I am gone, a poin..

Priscilla of the Good Intent

Halliwell Sutcliffe

Priscilla was vaguely disturbed. Softness of speech and manner she understood, for she had ever been a favourite with the landed gentlefolk of Strathgarth; and, because she understood them, she detect..

Stepping Westward

M. E. Francis

Mrs Roberts assented, after much murmuring and a good deal of sarcastic comment on the “neshness” of the rising generation.  There was never no talk of newralgy or oldralgy neither when she was a..

Norma: A Flower Scout

The foregoing letter was sealed and mailed that forenoon when Farmer Ames drove past on his way to the general store. But there may be some readers who have not met Natalie and her friends at Green Hi..

That's Not Love

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Miss Moriarty went on eating with an excellent appetite. She was never talkative. She was quiet, but with a quiet which Serena did not find restful or soothing. She was a tall girl, thin and supple, w..

Little Foxes

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Before marriage he worshipped and adored his wife as an ideal being dwelling in the land of dreams and poetries, and did his very best to make her unpractical and unfitted to enjoy the life to which h..

The Little Lady of the Horse

Evelyn Raymond

Mr. Calthorp bowed gravely and respectfully; and, loosing Steenie’s hand, bade her make herself ready for the table as soon as possible. She held up her face for a kiss, then sped away, thinking she h..