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The Copperhead
The Copperhead – Harold Frederic “The Copperhead” is a farmer in northern New York who sympathizes with the South in the anti-slavery struggle, and who in consequence is boycotted by his neighbors. He is driven from church, not allowed to sell his milk at the neighborhood creamery, and in a hundred ways ostracized and treated […]
The Lawton Girl
The Lawton Girl – Harold Frederic In „The Lawton Girl“ Mr. Harold Frederic has given us another highly realistic and instructive study of life in a modern American manufacturing town. The perils that beset the path of those who have riches, the temptations in the way of those who would be rich, the problems arising […]
In the Valley
In the Valley – Harold Frederic Harold Frederic has added a most picturesque and interesting region to those celebrated in American fiction. The Mohawk valley of central New York is rich in tradition, in the memory of stirring events, brave deeds, and heroic men, and, above all, in the patriotism of its people. It is […]
Seth’s Brother’s Wife
Seth’s Brother’s Wife – Harold Frederic A strong story of every-day life and one essentially American. Seth Fairchild’s experience as a green country boy on a great city daily, of which he finally becomes the editor, is true to the life, and not without its lesson. Isabel,“ Seth’s brother’s wife,“ is the central figure of […]
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens „In these times of ours,“ are the opening words of this book, which was published in England in 1864-65. The scene is laid in London and its immediate neighborhood. All the elaborate machinery dear to Dickens’s heart is here introduced. There is the central story of Our Mutual Friend, […]
The Life Of Sir Walter Scott
The Life Of Sir Walter Scott – Andrew Lang If all reading mankind had time to read Lockhart’s Life of Scott, a brief volume on Sir Walter would be a thing without excuse. The author still has tried to compress as much as possible of the essence of Lockhart’s great book into this space, with […]
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter – Nathanie Hawthorne Like all of Hawthorne’s novels, „The Scarlet Letter“ has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story. Its great dramatic force depends entirely on the mental states of the actors and their relations to one another, —relations of conscience, — […]
Earlier Stories
Earlier Stories – Frances Hodgson-Burnett This volume contains two love stories which appeared long ago in Peterson’s Magazine and marked the beginning of Mrs. Burnett’s literary work. “Kathleen Mavourneen” and “Pretty Polly Pemberton” are all fascinating heroines with the world at their feet; their beauty, grace, and wit are well calculated to charm the impressionable […]
Giovanni and the other
Giovanni and the other – Frances Hodgson-Burnett A little Italian boy with a beautiful voice, who comforted Mrs. Burnett when she mourned for her son at San Remo, is the hero of the first story. It is slightly autobiographical, introducing the writer and her tender reminiscences of her lost boy. „The boy who became a […]
Surly Tim (and other stories)
Surly Tim (and other stories) – Frances Hodgson-Burnett While the eight short stories which are bound together under the title of „Surly Tim‘ and Other Stories,“ take in a wide range of subjects, while the characters are distinct and the individuals unlike, there is still a singular oneness in the artistic motive of them all, […]