Adventures in Contentment
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Exhaustion interrupts the narrator's pursuit of success, and memories of fields and streams draw him toward a life on the land. After renting a Massachusetts farm and later buying it, he begins to find satisfaction in plowing, tending horses and noticing the changing seasons. David Grayson's reflective essays turn the feel of fresh earth, the smell of burning leaves and distant country sounds into occasions for reconsidering what makes work worthwhile.
Alongside these accounts of farm life are memories of childhood imagination. A preacher's readings conjure dark valleys, silent streets and mysterious figures for a boy in church. The narrator remembers the pictures and rhythms of the words as vividly as the scenes around his fields.
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- Author
- David Grayson
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 154
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online