| Author: Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948.
Title:
A Search for America [electronic resource] :
electronic edition based on the book's first 1927 edition
/ by Frederick Philip Grove, alias Felix Paul Greve,
or briefly "FPG" ;
edited by Gaby Divay & Jan Horner, with the technical
expertise of Dr. Barry Pomeroy ; with an introduction,
chapter-by-chapter summaries, publishing history & ca.
65 illustrative wep-pages called "Graphics & Links" by
Gaby Divay.
Online Access: etexts/Search-America2005/
First
Electronic Edition, 2000, rev. 2005.
Published:
Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Libraries, Archives & Special
Collections, c2000/5.
Notes:
Electronic version of the 1927 print edition,
which ed. had yellow covers & the following collation:
ix, 448 p., 19 cm.
Our electronic version of this book follows faithfully
the layout, & includes the wordy colophon & Graphic
Publishers advertisement of 8 books in the back.
Contents (119 html documents, 228 files):
Book One: The Descent [R. L. Stevenson, Motto], Chapter I-VII, p.1-116: I. I
emigrate. -- II. I land on American soil. -- III. I secure work. -- IV. I submerge.
-- V. I earn a promotion. -- VI. I meet the explanation for one kind of success.
-- VII. I move on.
Book Two: The Relapse [Thomas Carlyle, Motto], Chapter I-VII, p. 117-253: I.
The issue is obscured. -- II. I scour the city for work. -- III. I go on the
road. -- IV. I seek new fields. -- V. I join a new company. -- VI. I go on the
road again and land somewhere. -- VII. I wind things up.
Book Three: The Depths [Henry David Thoreau, Motto], Chapter I-VII, p. 257-362:
I. I go exploring. -- II. I lose sight of mankind. -- III. I come into contact
with humanity again. -- IV. I try to find work for the winter. -- V. I become
a "hand". -- VI. I widen my outlook. -- VII. I am kidnapped.
Book Four: The Level [Henry David Thoreau, Motto], Chapter I-V, p.365-448: I.
I learn to beat my way. -- II. I start work in the harvest. -- III. I become
acquainted with the hobo. -- IV. I meet mother and son. -- V. My problem defines
itself and I solve it.
Annotation:
Autobiographical fiction affording
numerous glimpses into Grove's life as Felix Paul Greve
(1879-1909), and the otherwise undocumented three years
he spent in America before he came to Manitoba in late
1912. --
On Half Title [p.i]: "By
the same author: Over Prairie Trails ; The Turn of
the Year ; Settlers of the Marsh. --
On Title Page [p.iii]:
'America is a continent, not a country.' -- p. [iv]
is blank.
p. [v]: "I reverently dedicate this book to the memory
of George Meredith, and Algernon Swinburne, and to one
of that illustrious triad who is still living, namely
Thomas Hardy, for 'Canadian literature is a mere bud
on the tree of great Anglo-Saxon tradition'." The name
of these three authors are in capitals. --
The Preface ["Author's Note", p. vi] is dated Dec. 1926,
Rapid City, and signed with the printed initials F.P.G.
This is the continuation of a habit Grove adopted as
Felix Paul Greve, when signing the prefaces of his numerous
German translations.
Subjects:
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948--Autobiographical fiction.
Grove, Frederick
Philip, 1879-1948--Childhood and youth.
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948. Search
for America. 1927. |
