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What happens to a dream of love when open country puts distance and hardship in its path?
In When Dreams Come True, Ritter Brown brings romance and adventure into the orbit of the American Southwest. Desert, mesa, canyon and wide sky frame a world of hard travel and strong longing. Small settlements lie far from the cities of the East. The pull is toward a larger life, and a love that must endure distance and risk.
Brown belongs to the early twentieth-century world of American popular fiction, when magazines and books carry romance and western adventure to a wide public. His warm, direct, openly emotional style gives this romance its old-fashioned appeal. The title holds out the promise of fulfilled dreams; the storytelling tradition puts hardship between longing and happiness.
What you’ll discover
- The Southwest's wide horizons Explore a landscape of heat, dust and long rides, far from the cities of the East.
- Adventure beside desire Follow the meeting of two longings: the wish for adventure and the hope of love.
- Dreams under pressure Discover a romance tradition where misunderstandings, rival hopes and frontier hardship stand between longing and happiness.
- Emotion without irony Settle into a warm, direct style that makes room for longing and heartfelt hope.
- An old-fashioned romantic spirit Enter a tradition of love stories where the desire for a larger life matters deeply.
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For readers who love period romance, open-country settings and warm love stories, with adventure, desire and the wide landscapes of the Southwest.
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- The Southwest sets the stage
- Adventure and desire move together
- Dreams are tested by hardship
- A storyteller of his age
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When Dreams Come True
by Ritter Brown
In the wide Southwest, love faces distance and risk as a deep wish is put to the test.
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When Dreams Come True is a romance by Ritter Brown, an author who died in 1928. The book belongs to the tradition of early twentieth century American popular fiction, where love stories were set against open country, hard travel and the pull of the Southwest.
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The Southwest sets the stage
Romances set in the American Southwest draw on a landscape of desert, mesa, canyon and wide sky. Readers of this kind of book expect heat, dust, long rides and small settlements far from the cities of the East. The land is never only a backdrop. It shapes what people can do, how far they must travel and how much they must trust one another.
In early twentieth century fiction, the West stood for a place where a person could start again. Writers used it to suggest freedom, danger and a chance to become someone new. A romance set there often pairs that promise with a longing of the heart.
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What is When Dreams Come True about?
It is a romance set in the American Southwest. Its title and genre point to a story of love and adventure in which a long-held wish is tested by distance and hardship.
Who wrote When Dreams Come True?
The book was written by Ritter Brown, an American author of popular fiction who died in 1928. He wrote in the era of romance and western adventure stories.
When was When Dreams Come True written?
It dates from the early twentieth century, before the author's death in 1928, a period when romantic and western adventure fiction was very popular with general readers.
The author
Ritter Brown
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Ritter Brown was an author who wrote popular fiction in the early twentieth century and died in 1928. His work belongs to the age of romance and adventure stories that found readers in books and magazines, often with settings in the American West.
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