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A Daughter of the Land
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 […]
Michael O’Halloran
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 […]
Laddie
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 […]
The Harvester
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 […]
A Girl fo the Limberlost
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 […]
The Fire Bird
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 […]
Morning Face
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 […]
Homing with the Birds
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 […]
Moths of the Limberlost
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 […]
Music of the Wild
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 […]