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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Pages : 368
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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736409540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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"Come, Sam, tell us a story," said I, as Harry and I crept to his knees, in the glow of the bright evening firelight; while Aunt Lois was busily rattling the tea-things, and grandmamma, at the other end of the fireplace, was quietly setting the heel of a blue-mixed yarn stocking. In those days we had no magazines and daily papers, each reeling off a serial story. Once a week, "The Columbian Sentinel" came from Boston with its slender stock of news and editorial; but all the multiform devices—pictorial, narrative, and poetical—which keep the mind of the present generation ablaze with excitement, had not then even an existence. There was no theatre, no opera; there were in Oldtown no parties or balls, except, perhaps, the annual election, or Thanksgiving festival; and when winter came, and the sun went down at half-past four o'clock, and left the long, dark hours of evening to be provided for, the necessity of amusement became urgent. Hence, in those days, chimney-corner story-telling became an art and an accomplishment. Society then was full of traditions and narratives which had all the uncertain glow and shifting mystery of the firelit hearth upon them. They were told to sympathetic audiences, by the rising and falling light of the solemn embers, with the hearth-crickets filling up every pause. Then the aged told their stories to the young,—tales of early life; tales of war and adventure, of forest-days, of Indian captivities and escapes, of bears and wild-cats and panthers, of rattlesnakes, of witches and wizards, and strange and wonderful dreams and appearances and providences.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an interesting compilation of small-town stories to entertain and thrill readers. Excerpt: "Still we shivered, and clung to his knee, at the mysterious parts, and felt gentle, cold chills run down our spines at appropriate places. We were always in the most receptive and sympathetic condition. Tonight, in particular, was one of those thundering stormy ones, when the winds appeared to be holding a perfect mad carnival over my grandfather's house."
Author: Гарриет Бичер-Стоу
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040545800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Stowe H.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521083049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories” is a sequel to her novel “Old Town Folks”, featuring some of the same characters. It is a collection of fifteen charming short stories told by Sam Lawson to some young boys of Oldtown. The author here masterfully captures many of the colloquial expressions, superstitions, beliefs, customs and habits of that period.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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