num_pages: 420
description: Considered her finest work and an American classic, Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant farmer. Against all privations and the forces that would subdue her, Ellen is sustained by a sense of wonder and by an awareness of her own being. Reduced to the bare elements of life, her world becomes a ceremony of daily duties that bind her to the natural world and her family. The Time of Man stands as a beautifully written tribute to the human spirit.
language: English
title: The Time of Man
titlecomplete: The Time of Man
genres: Classics, Fiction, Modern Classics, Female Authors, Novels, Family, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 155
publisher: University Press of Kentucky