Lost Valley: A Novel
Katharine Gerould
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 16, 2018)
Excerpt from Lost Valley: A NovelN 0 one taught there for more than a winter. The commissioners stretched their energies to the utmost to keep the school going as long as there was visible need. But after all it was clear that Lost Valley, already moribund, would presently die, quite; and then there would be no need of a school. Theoretically, transportation should have been furnished for the children to go to Siloam or even Barker's Creek, but it was hardly worth while. Most of them had old people to look after, some of them no brains to learn lessons with. Once, folk had left Lost Valley for the outer world; now no one left it, living, except for the poor farm, and against that the denizens fought with all their crazy strength. It came to be the unwritten law that so long as the inhabitants could scratch a meager living out of the soil, and get through the winter without freezing to death, they should be left to rot in peace, and any younger people who lingered might care for the older ones without being too much molested in the interest of their own education and development. The township was waiting for Lost Valley to die, and interfered only on the hint of tragedy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.