Jacob Abbott: Mary Erskine, A Franconia Story, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Mary Erskine, A Franconia Story
- A Classic Children's Story of Rural Life, Orphanhood, and Moral Growth
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- Verlag:
- SMK Books, 03/2018
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781515401452
- Artikelnummer:
- 10002091
- Umfang:
- 102 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 161 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 5 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 13.3.2018
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Mary Erskine, A Franconia Story is one of Jacob Abbott's nineteenth-century children's novels of rural life, moral growth, responsibility, and domestic character. Set in the village world of Franconia, the story follows Mary Erskine, a young orphan whose life is shaped by work, family feeling, practical judgment, and the quiet trials of growing into maturity. Abbott's fiction is built around ordinary decisions rather than sensational adventure, using childhood, household life, country manners, and moral choice to teach steadiness, kindness, self-command, and useful conduct. First published in 1850, Mary Erskine belongs to Abbott's Franconia stories, a series connected to the broader world of his educational and juvenile fiction. The novel is especially suited to readers of classic children's literature, nineteenth-century girls' fiction, country-life stories, moral tales, domestic fiction, and early American juvenile books. Its interest lies not only in plot, but in its picture of rural childhood, orphanhood, work, conduct, and the social values of mid-nineteenth-century family reading.