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Struggle Part Two The Driven Trilogy edition by David Guise Literature Fiction eBooks

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New Zealand, 1857. Son of an immigrant shepherd, David Lawrence has a strong will to fight with fate. This new land is his land. He is going to own some of it and take a hand in shaping its society. Donald Enderby, son of a wealthy run holder, and a visceral defender of privilege, opposes him from his schooldays, competing for land, for business directorships, for political success, and for Anna, his childhood friend, married to Donald, and whom too late, David has come to love.
Motherless from two years old, toughened by the harsh experiences of station life, David yearns for the love he has never experienced. A disastrous marriage on the West Coast gold fields leaves him with a baby son, and a loss of faith in his judgement of women. Greta, the gentle daughter of a German storekeeper in Hokitika who has befriended him, cares for his son, and eventually they marry.
Hard won success in developing land gives David the time and the money to develop commercial and political interests, frequently in conflict with Donald and his friends in the establishment. Conflict intensifies when he renews his friendship with Anna, and comes to love her.
Anna is bitterly unhappy in her marriage to Donald, who treats her with contempt; openly flaunting his various affairs. She fights back by joining the struggle for women’s voting rights. She has loved David since childhood, and, because he never loved her back, blames him for her predicament.
Torn by love for gentle Greta, the mother of his children, and love for spirited Anna, David struggles to stay true to his beliefs. Political, commercial and personal struggles become tumultuous as they move towards a conclusion.
This is the story of the growth and development of New Zealand, seen through one man’s life in Canterbury, in the late 19th century. We see how he influences, and is influenced by, farming changes, the break-up of the vast sheep stations, the growth of the freezing industry, banking, politics, and the great political figures of the era, the beginning of the union movement, religion, changes in Maori life and land tenure, women’s suffrage, family life, and, of course, social class differences inherited from the old world.