Edward Eggleston
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First published in 1885, "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans" is the charming and engaging American history book for children by Edward Eggleston. Best known for his "Hoosier" series, which depicted the life of a school teacher in rural Indiana in the mid-1800s, Eggleston was an American historian, Methodist preacher, and prolific author. Written to be accessible and engaging for elementary school children, Eggleston introduces many famous...
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See the times as they were: the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus' boyhood to his discovery voyage; John Cabot; Henry Hudson; William Penn; Ben Franklin; Washington; Jefferson; Daniel Boone; Fulton; Morse and the telegraph; Lincoln; Civil War; Spanish War; Great Expositions; Panama Canal; purchase of Alaska. This small volume of history is incredible in the extent of material and its ability to...
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Based on the author's own life as well as the life of Ohio itinerant preacher Jacob Young, this 1874 novel of a frontier Methodist minister and Bible agent presents a rollicking yet realistic view of early American life in the Midwest. Corn-shuckings, camp meetings, revivals, revels, and highwaymen color this novel-as-social-history.
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This 1883 juvenile novel, a sequel to Eggleston's first and best-known novel, The Hoosier School-Master, is based on the experiences of Eggleston's brother as a teacher. It offers considered criticisms of rural educational practices in Indiana but is also full of nostalgia for a bygone time in American life.
6) Duffels
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Published in 1893, this collection of eleven short stories includes "Sister Tabea," "The Gunpowder Plot," "The Story of a Valentine," "Talking for Life," and "The Christmas Club." Eggleston writes in his preface, "By these I am willing to be judged."
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Published in 1891, this was Eggleston's final novel, before he turned his hand exclusively to history. Here Eggleston satirizes the wealthy followers of Christian Science and faith healing. "The book was not written to depreciate anyone's valued delusions," he writes in his Preface, "but to make a study of human nature under certain modern conditions."
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Published in 1871, this was Eggleston's first and most successful novel. Eggleston's use of authentic regional dialect was highly influential on the subsequent course of American literature. Based on the experiences of Eggleston's brother George, the novel follows a young schoolmaster in his first year of teaching at a backwoods Indiana school.
12) Roxy
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Published in 1878, Roxy was one of Eggleston's best selling novels. Its heroine, Roxy Adams, is a religious woman whose faith is sorely tested when her husband embarks on an affair that results in an illegitimate child. It is an example of pure American fiction; in a contemporary review, the New York Post wrote, "'Roxy' is the best product of Dr. Eggleston's activity in the field of fiction."