num_pages: 528
description: Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.
language: English
title: The Keeper of the Bees
titlecomplete: The Keeper of the Bees
genres: Classics, Nature, Historical, Adult, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3041
places: California
publisher: Indiana University Press