Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Academy Squadron begins another tour of Europe, this time visiting Italy and Austria.
Sunny Shores, Or, Young America in Italy and Austria
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Academy Squadron begins another tour of Europe, this time visiting Italy and Austria.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Academy Squadron begins another tour of Europe, this time visiting Italy and Austria.
Sunny Shores
Author: William T. Adams
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385235316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385235316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Sunny Shores, Or, Young America in Italy and Austria
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Cross and Crescent, Or, Young America in Turkey and Greece
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
Author: Vicki Anderson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786483024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786483024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Noble Deeds of Our Fathers
Author: Henry Clay Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Northern Lands - Young America in Russia and Prussia
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736419643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Northern Lands, the second volume of the second series of "Young America Abroad," describes the varied experience of the juvenile tourists of the Academy Squadron in the Baltic, and during their journeys in Russia and Prussia, and their voyages between the different ports in these countries. Compared with most other countries of Europe, but little has been written about Russia, and the greater portion of this volume related to that interesting nation. The author writes from his own notes and recollection, so far as scenery, manners and customs are concerned, but he has made diligent study and use of all the material within his reach, including much that was gathered abroad. Perhaps the young people will vote that this is the dryest book the author has ever presented to them, because it contains the most useful information; but he hopes they will not neglect the historical part, which is sometimes stranger than any fiction. But the volume is not without its story, which may be regarded as a reflection, on a small scale, of the political experience of the American citizen. Doubtless our young friends will sympathize with Scott the Joker in his devotion to fair play; and well will it be for our country when this spirit shall pervade the caucus and the voting[8] places, and those who are selfishly striving for office are as effectually rebuked and ignored as they were in the Academy Squadron. The next volume of the series, from the nature of the circumstances, rather than from any fixed intention on the part of the writer, will contain much more of stirring incident than the present. The author, who has so long been before the public as a writer of juvenile books, and who has so often "launched a volume," has felt that his welcome must be nearly worn out, and that he had no right to expect the continued favor of his army of young friends.
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736419643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Northern Lands, the second volume of the second series of "Young America Abroad," describes the varied experience of the juvenile tourists of the Academy Squadron in the Baltic, and during their journeys in Russia and Prussia, and their voyages between the different ports in these countries. Compared with most other countries of Europe, but little has been written about Russia, and the greater portion of this volume related to that interesting nation. The author writes from his own notes and recollection, so far as scenery, manners and customs are concerned, but he has made diligent study and use of all the material within his reach, including much that was gathered abroad. Perhaps the young people will vote that this is the dryest book the author has ever presented to them, because it contains the most useful information; but he hopes they will not neglect the historical part, which is sometimes stranger than any fiction. But the volume is not without its story, which may be regarded as a reflection, on a small scale, of the political experience of the American citizen. Doubtless our young friends will sympathize with Scott the Joker in his devotion to fair play; and well will it be for our country when this spirit shall pervade the caucus and the voting[8] places, and those who are selfishly striving for office are as effectually rebuked and ignored as they were in the Academy Squadron. The next volume of the series, from the nature of the circumstances, rather than from any fixed intention on the part of the writer, will contain much more of stirring incident than the present. The author, who has so long been before the public as a writer of juvenile books, and who has so often "launched a volume," has felt that his welcome must be nearly worn out, and that he had no right to expect the continued favor of his army of young friends.
The Lawrence "Mother Goose".
Author: Estelle D. Kendall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Lieutenant at Eighteen
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Deck Lyon is promoted to the rank of lieutenant even though he is only eighteen."--Preface
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Deck Lyon is promoted to the rank of lieutenant even though he is only eighteen."--Preface
Breaking Away, Or, The Fortunes of a Student
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Students
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Students
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description