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Frederick Philip Grove. A Search for America
A Search for America
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE. The Descent
ONE. I Emigrate
TWO. I Land on American Soil
THREE. I Secure Work
FOUR. I Submerge
FIVE. I Earn a Promotion
SIX. I Meet the Explanation for One Kind of Success
SEVEN. I Move On
BOOK TWO. The Relapse
ONE. The Issue is Obscured
TWO. I Scour the City for Work
THREE. I Go on the Road
FOUR. I Seek New Fields
FIVE. I Join a New Company
SIX. I Land Somewhere
SEVEN. I Wind Things Up
BOOK THREE. The Depths
ONE. I Go Exploring
TWO. I Lose Sight of Mankind
THREE. I Come Into Contact With Humanity Again
FOUR. I Try to Find Work for the Winter
FIVE. I Become a Hand
SIX. I Widen My Outlook
SEVEN. I Am Kidnapped
BOOK FOUR. The Level
ONE. I Learn to Beat My Way
TWO. I Start Work in the Harvest
THREE. I Become Acquainted With the Hobo
FOUR. I Meet Mother and Son
FIVE. My Problem Defines Itself and I Solve It
APPENDIX
Author's Note to the Fourth Edition (1939)
THE END
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Frederick Philip Grove
Published by Good Press, 2022
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What could he mean? Sundays? I did not enquire, however, for fear of betraying too great an ignorance for his patience.
"Save!" he went on contemptuously. "Of course, I don't say no. Been a saving man meself all me life. But then it had taken me and me wife five years to lay by sufficient to pay my passage across. The old lady stayed behind till I should have got a foothold."
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