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Zane Grey의 "The Desert of Wheat"는 1919년에 출판된 소설로, 제1차 세계대전 시기의 미국을 배경으로 합니다. 이 작품은 워싱턴 주의 밀 농장 지대를 중심으로 전개되며, 전쟁과 국내 노동 운동의 영향을 받는 미국 사회의 모습을 그립니다.

주인공 Kurt Dorn은 독일계 이민자의 아들로, 아버지의 밀 농장을 물려받게 됩니다. 소설은 Kurt가 자신의 정체성, 애국심, 그리고 의무감 사이에서 겪는 갈등을 중심으로 전개됩니다. 전쟁이 발발하자 Kurt는 조국에 대한 의무와 농장을 지켜야 하는 책임 사이에서 고민합니다.

Grey는 이 작품을 통해 여러 복잡한 주제를 다룹니다. 전시 애국심, 노동 운동과 IWW(세계산업노동자연맹)의 영향, 독일계 미국인들이 겪는 차별과 의심, 그리고 농업의 중요성 등이 주요 테마로 등장합니다. 또한 전쟁이 국내 경제와 사회에 미치는 영향을 세밀하게 묘사합니다.

"The Desert of Wheat"는 Zane Grey의 전형적인 서부 소설과는 다른 양상을 보이며, 당대의 중요한 사회적, 정치적 이슈를 다루고 있습니다. 이 작품은 Grey의 문학적 다양성을 보여주며, 단순한 오락성을 넘어 심도 있는 역사적, 사회적 통찰을 제공한다는 점에서 의미 있는 작품으로 평가받습니다.


Zane Grey's "The Desert of Wheat" is a novel published in 1919, set in the United States during World War I. The story is centered around the wheat farms of Washington State, and depicts American society under the influence of the war and the domestic labor movement.

The main character, Kurt Dorn, is the son of German immigrants who inherits his father's wheat farm. The novel centers around Kurt's conflict between his identity, patriotism, and sense of duty. When the war breaks out, Kurt struggles between his duty to his country and his responsibility to protect his farm.

Gray covers a number of complex themes in this work. Major themes include wartime patriotism, the influence of the labor movement and the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), discrimination and suspicion experienced by German Americans, and the importance of agriculture. It also depicts in detail the impact of the war on the domestic economy and society.

"The Desert of Wheat" is a departure from Zane Grey's typical Western novels, dealing with important social and political issues of the time. This work is considered a significant work in that it shows Grey's literary diversity and provides deep historical and social insight beyond mere entertainment.

Summary
Late in June the vast northwestern desert of wheat began to take on a tinge of gold, lending an austere beauty to that endless, rolling, smooth world of treeless hills, where miles of fallow ground and miles of waving grain sloped up to the far-separated homes of the heroic men who had conquered over sage and sand.
These simple homes of farmers seemed lost on an immensity of soft gray and golden billows of land, insignificant dots here and there on distant hills, so far apart that nature only seemed accountable for those broad squares of alternate gold and brown, extending on and on to the waving horizon-line.

Contents
CHAPTER I. These simple homes of farmers seemed lost on
CHAPTER II. Anderson's keen eyes swept from near
CHAPTER III. With a strange knocking of his heart
CHAPTER IV. Toward the end of July eastern Washington
CHAPTER V. Golden Valley was the Garden of Eden of the Northwest
CHAPTER VI. Singing of birds at her window awakened Lenore
CHAPTER VII. Three days later, Lenore accompanied her father
CHAPTER VIII. The journey homeward held many incalculable differences
CHAPTER IX. Kurt Dorn had indeed no hope of ever seeing
CHAPTER X. Kurt rode to Adrian on that freight
CHAPTER XI. Late in the forenoon of the next day Kurt Dorn reached home
CHAPTER XII. Next day was one of the rare
CHAPTER XIII. The bright sun of morning disclosed that wide
CHAPTER XIV. Kurt rushed back to the house
CHAPTER XV. It seemed that Kurt did not altogether lose
CHAPTER XVI. The sun was up, broad and bright
CHAPTER XVII. An August twilight settled softly down over
CHAPTER XVIII. fter Lenore's paroxysm of emotion
CHAPTER XIX. Lenore awakened early
CHAPTER XX. Lenore waited for Kurt
CHAPTER XXI. Thirty masked men sat around a long harvest mess-table
CHAPTER XXII. A dusty motor-car climbed the long road leading up
CHAPTER XXIII. For two fleeting days Lenore Anderson was happy
CHAPTER XXIV. You remember how I always took to cowboys
CHAPTER XXV. im's last letter was not taken seriously
CHAPTER XXVI. Through the pale obscurity of a French night
CHAPTER XXVII. The monstrous possibility that had consumed Kurt Dorn
CHAPTER XXVIII. The squad of men to which Dorn belonged had to
CHAPTER XXIX. It was warm up there on the slope
CHAPTER XXX. It was night
CHAPTER XXXI. he remarkable happened
CHAPTER XXXII. Lenore told her conception of the history