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The narrative traces a farmer’s life through a sequence of domestic and agrarian trials, opening with the difficult birth that ends a long period of childlessness and leads to medical intervention. After his first wife dies he marries the foreman’s robust daughter, whose successive pregnancies alter the household and the farm’s fortunes. The story observes the grind of rural labor, the impact of luck and economics on smallholding life, changing family dynamics, and how fertility and practical decisions reshape identity, work, and community over time.

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Title: Eris

Author: Robert W. Chambers

Release date: April 17, 2022 [eBook #67856]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: George H. Doran Company, 1922

Credits: Susan Skinner, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ERIS ***

ERIS

BY
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

AUTHOR OF “THE FLAMING JEWEL,” “THE LITTLE RED
FOOT,” “THE SLAYER OF SOULS,” “IN SECRET,”
“THE COMMON LAW,” ETC.

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY