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The Able McLaughlins

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First published
1923
Pages
159

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  3. Section 3

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  5. Section 5

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  6. Section 6

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  10. Section 10

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Set among Scots Presbyterian settlers on the Iowa prairie during the Civil War years, this novel follows Wully McLaughlin home from the army to a homecoming soured by grief. The girl he loves, Christie, has been assaulted and left pregnant by a swaggering neighbor, and Wully answers by marrying her and claiming the child as his own. When the guilty man returns to the settlement, long buried anger threatens everything the young couple have built. Margaret Wilson draws the close, watchful pioneer community with unusual honesty about its hardships, its faith, and its capacity for both cruelty and forgiveness. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. This free PDF and EPUB edition returns an early American prize winner to circulation.

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Margaret Wilson

Margaret Wilson (1882-1973) was an American novelist born in Iowa to a Scots Presbyterian pioneer family. After years as a missionary in India, she turned to fiction, winning the 1924 Pulitzer Prize with The Able McLaughlins, a story drawn directly from her frontier heritage.

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Book facts

First published
1923
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
159
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Warren Kati