5 Books by David Grayson
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Overview: About the Author: Ray Stannard Baker (April 17, 1870 in Lansing, Michigan – July 12, 1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts) who is also known by his pen name David Grayson was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and author. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1940.
Adventures in Contentment
The cheerful philosophizings of a young man who turns to nature and farm life to regain his health. Excerpts From the Introduction: “I have been eight years a farmer…I am conscious that I can offer few of the practical hints which are distributed like coins at the meetings of the grange, nor have I the genius to write a poem, nor the orthodoxy to preach a sermon. I can offer merely the more or less fragmentary writing of a man’s life as it has been lived with satisfaction for eight years.”
Adventures in Friendship
Inside Adventures in Friendship’s pages are stories about discovering life in the simple things you’d think nothing about until upon further inspection. Whether it be a person, place or situation, in slowing down our own lives to get a better view and the understanding that being viewed allows the object to take on a more serene quality. This book is as relevant today as it was when written. With the advent of the information age and the world becoming one big on-line community based partly in virtual-reality, it’s important to learn from those who once stood face to face with their neighbors to laugh, cry and share in the ups and downs and peculiarities of life.
Great Possessions
Biography of David Grayson. Excerpts from the Book: I suddenly caught a whiff of pure delight that stopped me short. “What now can that be?” and I thought to myself that nature had played some new prank on me. I turned into the orchard, following my nose. It was not the peach buds, nor the plums, nor the cherries, nor yet the beautiful new coloured leaves of the grape, nor anything I could see along the grassy margin of the pasture. There were other odours all about, old friends of mine, but this was some shy and pleasing stranger come venturing upon my land. A moment later I discovered a patch of low green verdure upon the ground, and dismissed it scornfully as one of my ancient enemies. Well, this particular fierce enemy was a patch of chickweed. Chickweed! Invader of the garden, cossack of the orchard! I discovered, however, that it was in full bloom and covered with small, star-like white blossoms. “Well, now,” said I, “are you the guilty rascal?” So I knelt there and took my delight of it and a rare, delicate good odour it was.
Hempfield: A Novel
In “HEMPFIELD,” David Grayson tells his story of a little country printing office and how romance entered there. You will like Nort with his boyish enthusiasms for the uplift of country journalism, Fergus, red-haired and Scotch, the old captain with the “trenchant pen” and Anthy, lovable and brave, owner of the Hempfield Star. “Hempfield” is David Grayson’s first novel, filled with all the charm of his earlier “Adventures.”The New York Times Book Review says of “Hempfield”: “This newest ‘adventure’ will take its place among the group of novels that are really American, through and through. From beginning to end this small-town chronicle is interesting. And the author writes with sympathy and charm. It is a picture of a phase of American life, a series of vivid sketches of a few American men and an American woman. Anthy is one of the realest and most lovable heroines of contemporary American fiction.”
The Friendly Road
Mr. Grayson sets out to earn his way on a three-weeks’ spring tramp along country roads. His eyes are open to the beauties of nature and he welcomes heartily every chance to know and serve whomever he meets in a homely, friendly way, thereby coming into many delightful and unexpected experiences, which he relates with his own cheerful philosophy. Grayson embarks on one of the joys of youth — regaining a sense of perfect freedom. He takes to the road for a period of months, temporarily leaving behind all responsibilities and rejoicing in the land and people he will meet. He invites us along.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Philosophy > New Age Thought & Practice | Non-Fiction > Biography, Travel
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