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Diverging roads

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Set amid California's former mining settlements, the narrative traces life in a small, sleepy town left behind after a boom, focusing on young residents who feel confined and yearn for wider experience. Local color—train arrivals, deserted diggings, orchards, and the routines of shopkeepers—mixes with intimate scenes of school, work prospects, and tentative romances as characters weigh homestead life against leaving. Themes of nostalgia for earlier daring, the erosion of communal prosperity, and restless choices toward new trails shape a quiet social portrait of transition from a romanticized past to uncertain futures.

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Title: Diverging roads

Author: Rose Wilder Lane

Release date: October 20, 2024 [eBook #74612]
Most recently updated: December 9, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Century Co, 1919

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DIVERGING ROADS

BY ROSE WILDER LANE

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1919

Copyright, 1919, by The Century Co.

Published, March, 1919


Contents

PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV