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A first-person series of recollections set in a narrow rural Pennsylvanian valley, offering anecdotal and reflective vignettes of childhood, family life, schooling, church and community rituals, and small-town pastimes such as fishing and baseball. The narrator combines candid humor and self-aware commentary while recounting parental and aunt relationships, classroom experiences, moral rules, holidays, youthful illusions, minor failures, and local characters. Chapters emphasize impressions over strict chronology, examining how everyday institutions and memories shaped personality and outlook.

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Title: Farmington

Author: Clarence Darrow

Release date: January 24, 2017 [eBook #54018]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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Farmington

FARMINGTON

By
CLARENCE S. DARROW
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1904
Copyright, 1904,
By A. C. McClurg & Co.
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London.
All rights reserved.
Published September 24, 1904
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.