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The very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death. The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other. A book that examines the healing power that nature and kindness can have upon someone’s life.
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- Sales Rank: #30997 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-02-17
- Released on: 2015-02-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
From the Back Cover
Broken in spirit and body, James Lewis MacFarland, a wounded veteran of World War I, decides to escape from the military hospital before he is sent to a hospital for tubercular patients. He sets out on a great adventure which takes him to the healing sun and ocean of California.
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
The Keeper of the Bees
By A Customer
As a teenager, I balked at my mother's suggestion of reading the old book which was falling apart at the seams. Much to my surprise, I actually enjoyed "The Keeper of the Bees" and I'm looking forward to reading other books by Gene Stratton-Porter. This story is of an injured soldier who runs away from the best hospitals the military could offer and escapes to the beach to die. Much to his surprise, rather than relying on others constantly, he finds himself helping others throughout his journey. This experience helps improve his health both mentally and physically. This is an excellent book for readers of all ages and a must for the home library collection.
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Wholesome Romance and Recovery Story
By M. Sellers
This novel, written by the author of A Girl of the Limberlost and Freckles, begins at the end of WW I (The Great War). Jamie MacFarlane, an American of Scottish descent, is languishing in a California hospital, the wound in his chest not getting any better. He is far from God, alone in the world, and sure he will soon die. He overhears that he is to be sent to a different hospital, one rife with tuberculosis. Instead of submitting to certain death, Jamie walks away from the military hospital and embarks on a "Great Adventure."
From his first interactions with people (and because the author repeatedly tells us), we can see Jamie is a man of fine moral character--trustworthy, honest, wholesome, and helpful. Eventually, his Great Adventure brings him to the point of death, or so he thinks. Then he stumbles upon a lovely little house by the ocean. A man appears at the gate and calls for help. Jamie, forgetting his own near-exhaustion and certain death, rushes to the aid of the elderly man and telephones for help. The man, The Bee Master, asks Jamie to live in his house and manage it and care for his bees and plants until he is able to return. (Because, he could see immediately that Jamie was an honest, wholesome, trustworthy fellow.)
The story progresses with the addition of new characters--the Little Scout, a genderless neighborhood child and "partner" of the Bee Master who befriends Jamie and provides all sorts of sage wisdom and childish fun; Margaret, the kindly neighbor who cooks and cleans for Jamie while living through her own struggles; and the Storm Girl, a mysterious woman who unburdens her heart to Jamie and is helped by him.
The story progresses in a satisfying way. Porter spares no expense in her discussion of nature. Bees and their workings, the native flora of California, the scents of the garden, the landscape of the area--all are worked in as an integral part of the story. She also make sure to express her views of the morality of the time and stresses the sorrows of young people and their modern, "oversexed" ways and the wearing of too much makeup while playing up the ideas of patriotism and the American melting pot. The ideas of working hard, prayers and thanksgiving, helping one's fellow man, and forgiveness are all woven in to this tale.
In addition to all the wholesomeness and nature study, the book is also a romance. Who is the mystery girl? Will she and Jamie ever get together? Where is Margaret's daughter? Will Jamie's wound heal? Will the Bee Master return to his home? What are the secrets of his past?
As far as objectionable material, a woman becomes pregnant out of wedlock (but pays heavily for her indiscretion), and Jamie thinks about his Storm Girl (but not in an inappropriate way). Many tomatoes are eaten, although I doubt any would find this objectionable.
All in all, The Keeper of the Bees is a clean, pleasant read which adults and teens alike would enjoy. The plot would be a bit much for a younger reader (elementary), but the material would not be objectionable.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
"Bees" is a Keeper
By Steven Fantina
Reading "Keeper of the Bees" is a very sensual experience. When the action takes place in the Bee Master's garden I was tempted to actually pick some of the blue flowers. There were times when I was certain that I was smelling the salt air as I heard the Pacific's Ocean's waves crash on the sandy beach. And when the scene shifted to the apiary, it took a concerted effort not to recoil as the swarms worked their magic, and of course I craved the delicious honey fresh out of the hive.
The wholesome adventure involves a slowly recovering World War I veteran who runs away from the hospital to die in the tranquility of the California's coastal countenance, but instead finds redemption by coming to the aid of an assortment of fleshed-out characters.
While the book is a beneficial read, I had a few structural complaints. At times Mrs. Stratten-Porter's style seemed haphazard and in isolated incidents, I was delayed by choppy sentence structure. The departure of the Brunsons--minor characters relevant only to the early chapters--seemed disturbingly abrupt, and the presence of the androgynous Little Scout will no doubt be deliberately misinterpreted today in ways that the author never intended 75 years ago. Winnowing 50-100 of its 500+ pages seemed like a feasible option that could have dulcified the work.
Tragically, Mrs. Stratten-Porter did not live to see this book's publication. (Perhaps her untimely death prevented the final proofread which may have assuaged the mechanical drawbacks I referenced.) It was a posthumous swan song that capped her palmy career. Based on this beneficent tale, I am very interested in exploring some of her earlier efforts.
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