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A Search for America: The Odyssey of an Immigrant
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A Search for America: The Odyssey of an Immigrant Mass market paperbound - 1991

by Frederick Philip Grove; Afterword by W. H. New


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Frederick Philip Grove was born Felix Paul Grove at Radomno in West Prussia (now a part of Poland) in 1879. Raised in Hamburg and educated at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Munich, he began his career as a poet and translator into German of many English and French writers, including Balzac, Flaubert, Gide, Swift, and Wilde. His first novel, Fanny Essler, appeared in 1905; his second, Maurermeister Ihle’s Haus (Mastermason Ihle’s House), in the following year. He left Germany in 1909 for the United States.

In 1912, under the new name of Frederick Philip Grove, he began teaching school in Manitoba, and continued in that profession until 1924.

Grove’s first book in English, Over Prairie Trails, is a sequence of seven sketches of his weekly trips through the Manitoba countryside. His first novel in English, Settlers of the Marsh, establishes the essentially tragic pattern of his fiction, the heroic pioneers who seek domestic and material happiness but seldom realize their goals.

Grove’s autobiography, In Search of Myself, begins with a fictitious account of his early life in Europe and moves on to a largely accurate presentation of his life in Canada.

In 1929 Grove left Manitoba to accept a job with a publishing firm in Ottawa. In 1931 he settled on a farm near Simcoe, Ontario, where he spent the final years of his life.

Frederick Philip Grove died in Simcoe, Ontario, in 1948.

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  • Title A Search for America: The Odyssey of an Immigrant
  • Author Frederick Philip Grove; Afterword by W. H. New
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 468
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Canadian Library, Toronto, ON
  • Date April 1, 1991
  • ISBN 9780771099571 / 0771099576
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.93 x 4.2 x 1.03 in (17.60 x 10.67 x 2.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90095213
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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