The Harvester Gene StrattonPorter 9781537163574 Books
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The Harvester (1911) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of a Thoreau-esque idealist and naturalist and his search for the love of his dreams, the Dream Girl. David Langston, the Harvester, lives in the woods and harvests medicinal herbs which he sells for a living. Suddenly he encounters Ruth Jameson, the real flesh-and-blood girl that had appeared to him only in his imagination. The Harvester woos her with all the impossible idealistic extremes of his heart, against all odds and with a selfless intensity.
The Harvester Gene StrattonPorter 9781537163574 Books
Five stars all the way. Once I began reading Gene Stratton-Porter's books, I gobbled them up as quickly as I could. The Harvester is one of my favorites - possibly my very favorite.Our hero is a very interesting person who has been left alone in the world, but makes a very good living on the property left to him by his parents. He is a gatherer of herbs who has a system in place whereby he can gather, preserve and then market his products to men of medicine.
Once each year for six years, 26 year old David Langston and his faithful dog, Bel, bring up the decision of whether or not David should seek a wife. He has a good living, nice property and is an all around faithful type of man. Once again, David decides that this will not be the year he will take a wife. That is, until he has a vision of "the woman." Once he gets a glimpse of his dream woman, he begins to search her out everywhere his feet take him.
Eventually, he does spy his dream woman, but loses her while attempting to rescue a young lad from injury. Then, he finds her once again, but realizes he must move carefully lest he frighten her away. Ruth Jameson has not had an easy life and there is something in her past that she fears - apparently a debt she owes. Alone in the world following the passing of her mother, she's now in the hands of an evil uncle. David wants to help but her pride stands in the way, especially considering David is basically a stranger to her.
The description of this book indicates 283 pages, but I can't imagine these pages are typical pages - perhaps that might be the count of a fairly large hard cover book. I would say that reading from my Kindle, it felt more like a book with 500 pages at least. I mention this because from the time David and Ruth meet until the time they come together for the fulfillment of David's dream, seemed like more than 200 plus pages. But, there's such sweetness along the way that I was thoroughly engaged.
Once David is able to persuade Ruth he can provide safe harbor from her uncle if she will marry him, their journey is just beginning. For David will not pressure Ruth to take him on as her husband in the physical way - not until she is prepared to come to him as the woman in his dream. The journey will take some time and there will be time spent away from one another, but when they finally come together, everything is delicious.
This book is such a refreshing departure from the jaded HR's I typically read, I'm not sure I can go back.
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The Harvester Gene StrattonPorter 9781537163574 Books Reviews
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How is the Harvester different from most other men?
Because he is a MAN. He is a gentleman from head to toe, despite the fact that he lives in a log cabin and makes his living by collecting herbs from the wild, drying them, and selling them to pharmaceutical companies. When he has a vision of a girl he is fated to marry, he is horrified, because he is so happy in his life as it is that he doesn't want it to change, and he's certain that his married life would be like just about everyone else's miserable.
But he sets forth to find the girl, and has no luck with anything he tries, until he goes to harvest some wild ginseng and finds the girl crying because she had intended to harvest it to try to get enough money to leave her uncle's house, where she has been stuck since her mother's death from starvation in Chicago. Now her aunt has died, and she is alone with a brutal man.
The Harvester impulsively proposes to her but promises her that he is marrying her to free her, not to enslave her, and he will ask for no marital rights. If she finds someone else she wants to marry, he will free her on grounds that the marriage was never consummated. (Stratton Porter is more delicate in her wording, but that is what she means.)
The rest of the book has its great ups and its agonizing downs, and I don't want to write a spoiler. All I will add is that I have read this book cover to cover a minimum of once a year since I first read it when I was twelve, and I am now 67 and I still cry at the end of it. If you don't wipe tears from your eyes at least one time as you're reading this book, either you are hopelessly and heartlessly sophisticated, or else you had better call an ambulance at once, because there is considerable possibility that you are dead.
I love this book. Although it is probably written for women, I would love to see every young man about fourteen years old read it, and maybe some of them would learn that being a man doesn't mean being foul-mouthed and open-zippered. Being a real man, the kind of man the Harvester is in this book, takes more cojones than most men ever think of having.
While I mostly enjoyed this book,I have to admit that I became downright annoyed with the character of David Langston after a while. He does indeed leave one feeling that he is too good to be true. I love his integrity, work ethic, manners, love of all things natural, and that he can build from scratch a fine china hutch in less than a week. I guess what annoyed me is that he would not let the girl of his dreams do or think anything for herself. Without a doubt, he loves her passionately. But to him, showing that love seems to mean doing everything for her, right down to choosing her clothes, toiletries, everything. He also has a difficult time letting her finish what she starts to say and loves to tell her how she feels. While enjoyable overall, it is not of the same calibre as Porter's "Freckles" and " A Girl of the Limberlost." That said, I'm going to move on the next Porter novel on my in my quest to read them all.
A very good read... It took me a few chapters to really get into the story, there were so many flowery descriptions and the main character just seems kind of odd. But after you get hooked, you can hardly put the book down. The Medicine Man begins to seem like the hero he really is, and you begin to be very intrigued with the Girl and her history. Woven into the story line is lots of information about plants and their medical uses, some of which I sort of skipped over. But if you were interested in that sort of thing, it would be a bonus, I guess. If you've read and loved Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost, I think you'll love this book too. And if you're new to Gene Stratton Porter, you'll soon be hooked!!
Five stars all the way. Once I began reading Gene Stratton-Porter's books, I gobbled them up as quickly as I could. The Harvester is one of my favorites - possibly my very favorite.
Our hero is a very interesting person who has been left alone in the world, but makes a very good living on the property left to him by his parents. He is a gatherer of herbs who has a system in place whereby he can gather, preserve and then market his products to men of medicine.
Once each year for six years, 26 year old David Langston and his faithful dog, Bel, bring up the decision of whether or not David should seek a wife. He has a good living, nice property and is an all around faithful type of man. Once again, David decides that this will not be the year he will take a wife. That is, until he has a vision of "the woman." Once he gets a glimpse of his dream woman, he begins to search her out everywhere his feet take him.
Eventually, he does spy his dream woman, but loses her while attempting to rescue a young lad from injury. Then, he finds her once again, but realizes he must move carefully lest he frighten her away. Ruth Jameson has not had an easy life and there is something in her past that she fears - apparently a debt she owes. Alone in the world following the passing of her mother, she's now in the hands of an evil uncle. David wants to help but her pride stands in the way, especially considering David is basically a stranger to her.
The description of this book indicates 283 pages, but I can't imagine these pages are typical pages - perhaps that might be the count of a fairly large hard cover book. I would say that reading from my , it felt more like a book with 500 pages at least. I mention this because from the time David and Ruth meet until the time they come together for the fulfillment of David's dream, seemed like more than 200 plus pages. But, there's such sweetness along the way that I was thoroughly engaged.
Once David is able to persuade Ruth he can provide safe harbor from her uncle if she will marry him, their journey is just beginning. For David will not pressure Ruth to take him on as her husband in the physical way - not until she is prepared to come to him as the woman in his dream. The journey will take some time and there will be time spent away from one another, but when they finally come together, everything is delicious.
This book is such a refreshing departure from the jaded HR's I typically read, I'm not sure I can go back.
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