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Product Details

  • Paperback: 586 pages
  • Publisher: HardPress Publishing (January 10, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1290029393
  • ISBN-13: 978-1290029391
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (114 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,165,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA hermit & herbalist who searches and finds his true love
By jpwolf@serv.net or Su Linn on February 22, 1999
Format: Paperback
This romance novel in my mother's girlhood collection was the first novel I ever read. The Harvester, a hermit who lives alone and supports himself by growing, harvesting and drying medicinal herbs, has vision of a wonderful woman. He sets out in search of her among the city streets by knocking on doors and selling flowers. He finds his girl, but she is traumatized and ill. The Harvester builds a home for her and establishes a relationship only to have her become so ill she almost dies. How he wins both her life and love make this story one you will never forget! If only Hollywood knew, we could have an academy award if this were ever made into a movie - it's a treasure!
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5.0 out of 5 starsMidwest Book Review - this one deserves 100 stars
By Laurel Johnson on March 16, 2004
Format: Paperback
If there is a more beautiful story anywhere than The Harvester, I have yet to find it. This early 20th century classic is as fresh and meaningful today as it was close to a century ago. It speaks of life lived purely and respectfully, of the truest form of love any mortal ever knew, and describes our beautiful America before greed and carelessness trashed her splendor.

David Langston is the Harvester, the Medicine Man. At age 26 he lives a solitary life with only his dog and horse to keep him company. He cultivates and harvests medicinal herbs and flowers on an acreage he has carefully developed. Here, in nature's pristine beauty and a world of thriving birds and wildlife, David dreams of someday finding a woman who will love him truly and passionately. He sees his Dream Girl in a vision and sets out with his typical persistence to find her. So certain is he that this lovely vision will become reality, he adds onto his small home and creates furniture lovingly by hand to meet her every comfort.

Ruth Jameson is ill in body, mind and spirit, a thin pale wraith of a girl. But to David Langston she is beauty personified. Her past has all but killed her, but David has no doubts. He loves her and will sacrifice anything and everything to win her. But first she must be made whole through pure food and nature's medicine, both laced generously with a decent man's devotion. He marries the girl to save her from cruelty and squallor, and promises to put male desire on hold until she can come to him freely. In his heart of hearts, he knows there is a chance she will never love him but he's willing to face that heartbreak if only she can be well again.

I've been reading The Harvester at intervals since I was 12 years old. But this is not a story for children.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat Goes to Make a Great Man?
By Anne Wingate on November 6, 2010
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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.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsDo you believe in magic and true love? Read this book.
By Acugal on August 5, 1998
Format: Paperback
This is an old-fashioned tale of true love, purity, hard work and regeneration through oneness with nature. It's a beautiful story which I read every time I get stuck in bed sick. I give it to friends who get sick. Just reading it is healing. I hope you enjoy it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMy All-Time Favorite Romance
By A Customer on May 17, 2001
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This is one you will read over and over. Yes, it is old-fashioned, but that is part of its charm. My sister loves this book so much she planned her vacation trip around visiting Gene Stratton Porter's home. For anyone who loves romance!
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3.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyable read, but the characters are not as endearing as Freckles or Girl of the Limberlost
By Linda on July 18, 2011
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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 Kindle in my quest to read them all.
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This is an old book but one of my very favorites. I have read it many times. If you like a romance that is not too mushy but has a wonderful feel good story that goes straight into... Read more

Published 1 month ago by cheryl the bookseller
4.0 out of 5 starsVery romantic, old fashioned love story

My mother recommended this book to me a million years ago when I was around 12 and I loved it! It is hopelessly romantic and a sweet story about a mans love for a special girl. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starssimple and wholesome story that makes for a good read when you need...

Underrated book, simple and wholesome story that makes for a good read when you need some cheering up.

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