Children's Stories in American Literature 1861-1896
Children's Stories in American Literature 1861-1896

Author: Henrietta Christian Wright

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-25

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780469756045

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Aunt Hannah and Seth
Aunt Hannah and Seth

Author: James Otis

Publisher:

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781409991342

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James Otis Kaler (1848-1912) was an American journalist and author of children's literature. He used the pen name James Otis. He got a job with the Boston Journal when he was in his teens. Later, he went on to work as a journalist or editor for various newspapers, a superintendent at schools, and a publicity man at a circus. In 1880, under the pen name James Otis, he authored his first children's book, Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks With a Circus, a story about an orphan who runs away to join the circus. Following the book's success he went on to author numerous other children's books. After spending several years in the southeastern states, he returned to Maine to become the first superintendent in South Portland. His other works include Left Behind; or, Ten Days a Newsboy (1885), The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan (1893), A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party (1898), Messenger No. 48 (1899), The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley (1905), and Richard of Jamestown (1910).

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-05-16

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781551116525

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This classic novel of childhood is set in fictional St. Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twain’s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain’s recounting of Tom Sawyer’s many escapades is by turns nostalgic, satiric, wise, and hilarious. While this novel is often considered mainly as the precursor to Twain’s great work The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is abundantly worth considering for its own deft and loving transformation of autobiography into fiction. In addition to the full text of the novel based on the first American edition, complete with a selection of the original illustrations by True Williams, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of appendices that place the novel in the context of 1840s rural America as well as 1870s literary America. These include materials on the composition and marketing of Tom Sawyer, selections from other “boy books” of the period, and historical documents relating to temperance, children’s literature, and schools.