Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Oldtown folks, 2. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Novels and Stories: Oldtown folks, 2. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
Author: Stowe H.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521083049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521083049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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.
Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Oldtown folks, and Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Oldtown folks, and Sam Lawson's oldtown fireside stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
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."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
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."
Ghost Stories
Author: J. A. Cuddon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140861181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Collected here are some of the best ghost stories ever written, to be experienced as they were meant to be--read aloud. From Angeline or the Haunted House by Emile Zola to The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce, these are classic writers working in an ever-popular genre of apparitions, mystery, and murder.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140861181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Collected here are some of the best ghost stories ever written, to be experienced as they were meant to be--read aloud. From Angeline or the Haunted House by Emile Zola to The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce, these are classic writers working in an ever-popular genre of apparitions, mystery, and murder.
Sam Lawson ́s Oldtown Fireside Stories
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752431075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Sam Lawson ́s Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752431075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Sam Lawson ́s Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton