The Harvester

Author of ''A Girl of the Limberlost,'' Freckles, etc.

***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.***

**An uplifting turn-of-the-century Indiana classic for all ages.*--Amazon***