by Louis Bromfield · Bergisch Gladbach : Bastei-Verlag, · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783404002153
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«Das Leben der Lily Shane» is the novel by Louis Bromfield, published by Bastei-Verlag in paperback (334 pages, in German).
The novel focuses on the life of Lily Shane and places it in a historical and political context. It is a work of classic American fiction, with a narrative that interweaves the personal and the social around its protagonist.
Work originally published as «The Green Bay Tree» in 1924; this German edition belongs to the Bastei Lübbe Bestseller collection (no. 11083).
For readers of American literary classics, particularly those who prefer to read novels in German.
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
