Author: RoverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Rover's Daughter; a Tale of the Sea
Author: Rover'A pair of clogs': and other stories for children
Author: Amy WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Children's Catalog of Thirty-five Hundred Books
Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Twelve Romances of the Sea and Tales of the Buccaneers and Pirates
Author: The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
Author: Vicki AndersonPublisher: 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.
Child-library Readers
Author: William Harris ElsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
To the King a Daughter
Author: Andre NortonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812577570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan: the four powers of the world, all once great and mighty, now yielding to the effects of centuries of war. A King of Oak and a Queen of Yew sit on the thrones of the land--the King is a drunken lout, the Queen a magical schemer. Ash and Rowan are nearly dead, their totem trees in the sacred square withering away to nothing. Allis falling into place for the power-hungry Queen Ysa, who will stop at nothing to ensure the continuation of her line. Only one thing may stand in her way: a long-ago prophesy that Daughter of Ash will one day rise again to reclaim her rightful place on the throne. But deep in the swamps, in the care of the witch-healer all need and all fear, there is a young girl-woman who can not be the witch's daughter; a girl who by virtue of her beauty and elegance, and simmering power, can only be a Daughter of Ash, the one who will rise to fulfill the prophecy--and the destiny of her birthright.
Girl Neighbours, Or, The Old Fashion and the New
Author: Sarah TytlerLife and Adventures of "Ned Buntline" [pseud.]
Author: Frederick Eugene PondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing stories
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Red Rupert, the American Buccaneer
Author: Maturin Murray BallouPublisher:
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Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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