The Pride of Palomar
A California Ranch Romance of Ancestral Honor, Financial Intrigue, and Tradition Against ModernityBy Peter B. Kyne
Length9h 30m
About this audiobook
Peter B. Kyne's *The Pride of Palomar* is a robust California novel of ranch life, inheritance, romance, and moral endurance. Set against the dramatic landscape of the Palomar country, it brings the pressures of modernization, property, family loyalty, and personal honor into tension with an older pastoral ideal. Kyne's prose is direct, vigorous, and richly attentive to horses, weather, labor, and the practical codes of the West; its romantic plot is consequently grounded in material realities rather than sentiment alone. The novel belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of regional Western fiction, while also reflecting the period's fascination with the transformation of rural California into a modern economic and social frontier. Peter B. Kyne (1880–197 kyne?) was a San Francisco–born author whose experience in business, ranching, and the American West informed the practical authority of his fiction. A prolific writer of novels and stories, he became known for combining adventure and romance with close observation of working communities, especially the men and women whose labor sustained expanding industries and settlements. His sympathy for individual courage and self-reliance gives the book much of its ethical force. Readers interested in California history, Western literature, and the evolution of popular American fiction will find *The Pride of Palomar* particularly rewarding. It offers an engaging narrative while preserving a vivid record of a changing region and the values its inhabitants struggled to defend.
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (504)
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GenreAction and Adventure, Romance
Length9 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish
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