The Land of Content
1913
A wealthy man loses himself in the mountains of rural America, searching for something his fortune cannot buy. When Benson Flood gets lost in his luxurious car, he stumbles upon Dr. John Ogilvie, a country physician who has found exactly what Flood seeks: a life of purpose, service, and hard-won contentment. What begins as a request for directions becomes an unlikely friendship between two men from opposite ends of the social spectrum, one who has everything except meaning, the other who has chosen meaning over everything. Meanwhile, Rosamund Randall, Flood's absent beloved, makes her own journey toward purpose when she stays behind to care for a child injured in an accident, discovering that love is not about being rescued but about showing up. Delano's 1913 novel is a quiet meditation on what makes a life worth living, set against the spring-blooming hills of an America that still believed simplicity could be a kind of wisdom. For readers who loved developmental fiction about becoming fully human.
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