Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020551536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this classic novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe explores the lives of the people who inhabit the island of Orr's Island. The story centers around a young girl named Maribel, who is forced to grow up quickly after her mother dies. Through Maribel's journey, readers are introduced to a cast of complex and engaging characters who struggle with issues of love, family, and identity. This novel is a powerful examination of life in a small New England community during the mid-19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1429042656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stowe set her 1889 heart-warming fictional story in the real coastal Maine town of Orr's Island, and based the characters on real Mainers she knew.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
Published: 1921*
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harriet Stowe
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 5040478879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781230278940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Vin THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN Life on any shore is a dull affair, -- ever degenerating into commonplace; and this may account for the eagerness with which even a great calamity is sometimes accepted in a neighborhood, as affording wherewithal to stir the deeper feelings of our nature. Thus, though Mrs. Kittridge was by no means a hard-hearted woman, and would not for the world have had a ship wrecked on her particular account, yet since a ship had been wrecked and a body floated ashore at her very door, as it were, it afforded her no inconsiderable satisfaction to dwell on the details and to arrange for the funeral. It was something to talk about and to think of, and likely to furnish subject-matter for talk for years to come when she should go out to tea with any of her acquaintances who lived at Middle Bay, or Maquoit, or Harpswell Neck. For although in those days, -- the number of light-houses being much smaller than it is now, -- it was no uncommon thing for ships to be driven on shore in storms, yet this incident had undeniably more that was stirring and romantic in it than any within the memory of any tea-table gossip in the vicinity. Mrs. Kittridge, therefore, looked forward to the funeral services on Sunday afternoon as to a species of solemn fete, which imparted a sort of consequence to her dwelling and herself. Notice of it was to be given out in "meeting" after service, and she might expect both keeping-room and kitchen to be full. Mrs. Pennel had offered to do her share of Christian and neighborly kindness, in taking home to her own dwelling the little boy. In fact, it became necessary to do so in order to appease the feelings of the little Mara, who clung to the new acquisition with most devoted fondness, and wept...
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-14
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9781080428700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rural tranquillity of the lonely, pine-girthed shores of the Maine coast is the setting for this beautiful novel of conflicting aspirations written by one of the most prolific and influential writers in American history. Here is the heartwarming story of a young girl's struggle to belong and fit in, in the face of adversity, and of her upbringing among strong women, grumpy fishermen, annoying gossips, sea captains, and the dreamlike, temptestuous landscape of Orr's Island. THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND is one of the forgotten -- but not lost -- masterpieces of American literature. It reflects Harriet Beecher Stowe's awareness of the complexity of small-town society, her commitment to realism, and her fluency in the local language.