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The Town

Awakening Land Series, Book 3

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The Town

By: Conrad Richter
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned author Conrad Richter immense acclaim, ranking him with the greatest of American mid-century novelists. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the varied fortunes of Sayward Luckett and her family in southeastern Ohio.

The Town, the longest novel of the trilogy, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize and received excellent reviews across the country. It tells how Sayward completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her friends, American pioneers, from the ways of wilderness to the ways of civilization. Here is the tumultuous story of how the Lucketts grow to face the turmoil of the first half of the 19th century. The Town is a much bigger book than either of its predecessors, and with them comprises a great American epic.

©1950 Conrad Richter; renewed 1977 by Harvena Richter (P)2020 Tantor Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Sagas

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A fascinating saga of a family born during the American Revolution becoming settlers to part of the Northwest Territory which became Ohio. The Awakening Land series was unknown to me, but I enjoyed the generations’ viewpoints like Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” series.

Ohio was the wilderness

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I read the whole trilogy, and it was well worth the read! The writing is amazing and I can see why a won a poet prize in 1951. The books are very insightful and profound in their insight into the nature of human beings.

Great metaphors!

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This is one of the best series I have ever read. The portrait of the lives of the earliest Pioneer settlers Is genuine and true.

A must read!

Fabulous series

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The Town was an enjoyable listen and a glimpse at an earlier time in America.

Enjoyable look at Americana

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I have read the Awakening Land trilogy many times and each time it has moved me and taught me.

The fourth time I have read this series

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conclusion! For those of you that want a taste of the early life in America, buy it. You will not be disappointed...

Exceptional

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Narrator mispronounces several names… Most notably Portius
Should be pronounced “ Porshus” . Ti is a two letter phonogram that says “sh” ... as a phonics teacher… It bothered me, sorry.

Did not like narration but the story is great...n narrator miss pronounces several names… Most notably Portius ... should be

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