Published by the Limbagang Cultura Filipina in Manila, Philippines, the novel narrates how the Filipinos who became the so-called pensionados undermined the traditional values and mores in the Philippines, including the people who acted as supporters and upholders of those conventional customs and norms.

[1] Mga Anak-Bukid is about the life of an ordinary farming couple, namely Tonyo and Juli.

Through his job as a journalist, George criticized and attacked the traditional values and mores of the Filipinos in the Philippines.

Through his newspaper columns, George dismissed the long-established rituals and practices in the Philippines as laughable, old-fashioned, and as things that should remain only in the past.

However, Juli was no longer enthusiastic in accepting Tonyo as her husband because her honor as a woman had been defiled.