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The Keeper of the Bees

Gene Stratton-Porter

1925·515 pages·young adult

Historical Fiction Romance

Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1925, 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.

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The Keeper of the Bees

Gene Stratton-Porter

Year

1925

Pages

515

Audience

young adult

Historical Fiction Romance Science & Mind

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Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1925, 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.

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