Spring Came On Forever is a 1935 novel by Bess Streeter Aldrich. One of Aldrich's "pioneer novels", it recounts the life of two American characters who head out West into the Nebraska Territory. The two, a German-speaking Lutheran girl and a blacksmith's apprentice, fall in love but their plans at marriage are thwarted by circumstances. Many years later, two descendants of theirs get married and unite two different traditions.
| Author | Bess Streeter Aldrich |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Families - Fiction |
| Publisher | New York: D. Appleton-Century |
Publication date | 1935 |
| Pages | 332 |
| OCLC | 1108892719 |
| 813.52 | |
| LC Class | PZ3.A3642 Sp PS3501.L378 |
| Website | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500651h.html |
The novel, which speaks to the German immigration experience in the United States,[1] was a great commercial success considering the time (the Great Depression); between October 1935 and January 1936 it sold over 45,000 copies. In March 1936, Aldrich was offered $20,000 for the movie rights, for a musical version by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern.[2]
In the 1980s and 1990s, the University of Nebraska Press republished a number of works by Aldrich; Spring was republished in 1985.[3]
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edit- Petersen, Carol Miles (1995). Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams are All Real. U of Nebraska Press. p. 151. ISBN 9780803237001.
- Quantic, Diane Dufva (1997). "The Midwest and the Great Plains". Updating the Literary West. TCU Press. pp. 641–49. ISBN 9780875651750.