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A Daughter of the Land – Gene Stratton-Porter

Mrs. Porter’s stories are laid in Indiana, in the region of the Limberlost, a great swamp which has been “shorn, branded and tamed” by oilmen and lumbermen, who have driven away the many birds, moths and butterflies, and destroyed much of the plant life. “A Daughter of the Land” is Mrs. Porter’s most ambitious novel. It is the life story of a girl up to the time of her second marriage. The heroine was the youngest of sixteen children and as a girl was denied the educational advantages given to her brothers. She had the courage to rebel and make her own life.

A Daughter of the Land

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Michael O’Halloran – Gene Stratton-Porter

Michael O’Halloran, nicknamed “Mickey”, is a sturdy, big-hearted fellow, an orphan who has remembered the admonitions of his mother and has made the best possible use of them. A most original little fellow he is, full of hard, common sense, and as determined as any boy can be. Every character in the story stands out as clean-cut as a cameo, and there are around dozen of them, all excellent people. The story is interspersed with a feeling for nature – for flowers and birds and the gentle in all things, and with a decided reference for the sweet and genuine and innocent in life, together with an unfaltering faith and expressed assurance in the goodness … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Laddie – Gene Stratton-Porter

A Tale of Indiana—a picture straight from life, showing the home circle of the Stantons and telling the love story of Laddie, the big brother of the Stanton family, and Pamela Pryor, an English girl. The book is full of poetry and of that love of nature that goes hand in hand with the author’s idealism. The vividness of the home life quite lays hold of one so that he cries out: “Here, indeed, is a true story!”

Few will forget the charm of the home wedding when Shelley Stanton was married, or the delicious moment when Leon, facing the congregation in the little Methodist Church, recited his thirteen texts, addressing each one to a member … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Harvester – Gene Stratton-Porter

Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter’s novel is an illustration of the harmony and intimacy which does rightly exist between a man and a forest. In ‘ The Harvester ‘ she has not only dramatized, but proved the purifying and preservative forces that are always present and predominant in such a situation. This is why the story is so popular. It is utterly simple, nothing in the plot to appeal to morbid interest or curiosity. We really prefer what is good and clean in man and in nature if we can get it portrayed in fiction.

The Harvester

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The Harvester.

ISBN: 9783849687861

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A Girl fo the Limberlost – Gene Stratton-Porter

The scene is laid in the same country as that of “Freckles”, which appeared a few years before. A number of the characters in “Freckles” are introduced here, and Elnora, the chief character, has the same deep love for the woods that possessed the boy Freckles. She has also become the proud owner of all his books on birds, insects, etc., and has tried to preserve the wonderful room he had made on the edge of the swamp. Elnora is a strong character, and although she has many things to contend with, she accomplishes what she has set out to do—namely, win for herself the education she craved. Through the money she … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Fire Bird – Gene Stratton-Porter

In musical flow of rhythm and word this poem of early Indian life tells the tragedy of a beautiful maiden whose love for a chieftain led her into jealous revenge. This revenge was the means of destroying not only her rival, but herself. In the telling there are passages of surpassing beauty, pictures of forest life and of Indian customs. The life drama is skilfully handled and the weaving in of the legend of the fire bird shows a knowledge of early American literature that is authoritative.

The Fire Bird

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The Fire Bird.

ISBN: 9783849689025

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Morning Face – Gene Stratton-Porter

The keynote of joyousness is struck by the title “Morning Face,” since the words represent the inspired idea of R. L. Stevenson in his verse, “If I have shown no morning face.” About this idea Gene Stratton-Porter, author of “Laddie,” “Freckles,” etc., has made this book for children. Although many tens of thousands of children have read and loved “Freckles” and her other books, this is the first time she has made a book specially for the youngsters. In prose and verse she gives her word-pictures of the buds, the flowers, and the life of the out-of-doors.

Morning Face

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Morning Face.

ISBN: 9783849689018

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Homing with the Birds – Gene Stratton-Porter

“Homing with the Birds” is a book in which one comes into intimate contact with one’s feathered friends, to the extent of feeling that they actually have personalities! This is doubtless because Mrs. Porter is a true and devoted friend to them herself, and has been so since her childhood. She says: “Almost my first distinct memory is connected with a bird.” and then proceeds to tell how this was upon an occasion when she was willing to deny herself the joy of eating cherries in order that woodpeckers in the neighborhood might not be killed! Many such incidents of the author’s childhood are in the book, demonstrating her intense, almost romantic, attachment … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Moths of the Limberlost – Gene Stratton-Porter

It is about this very bit of Indiana that Mrs. Porter has written her book,”Moths of the Limberlost,” and it is the most unusual and interesting nature book ever imagined. It is a story of the “Moths” of the Limberlost which every reader of “A Girl of the Limberlost” will remember. Mrs. Porter pictures and describes the moth, hunted by Elnora, and in these chapters there is one oi the landscapes over which she hunted, much of the swamp, and the very bridge under which she was working to cut loose a cocoon when Philip came up the stream, fishing. There is also the log cabin in which Elnora lived. The text is … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Music of the Wild – Gene Stratton-Porter

The same intense love of out-door beauty which makes us all remember Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter’s stories is shown in this book, a large volume with an ampler range of subject than the title would suggest. To the author’s open mind the “music” of owl and hawk and bat belong to the ” Chorus of the Forest” as well as that of chewink or grosbeak, and her delicate ear catches also the fairy sayings of moth and flower. Her judgment is not warped, because she knows which song is sweetest; but she insists that each angel have his due whether he be black or white. So crow and cricket, hop-toad and katy-did, have their … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...