True Stories from History and Biography
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125
1851
English
- Preface
- Part 1, Chapter 1
- Part 1, Chapter 2 The Lady Arbella
- Part 1, Chapter 3 The Red Cross
- Part 1, Chapter 4
- Part 1, Chapter 5
- Part 1, Chapter 6 The Pine-tree Shillings
- Part 1, Chapter 7
- Part 1, Chapter 8 The Indian Bible
- Part 1, Chapter 9
- Part 1, Chapter 10 The Sunken Treasure
- Part 1, Chapter 11
- Part 2 Chapter 1
- Part 2, Chapter 2
- Part 2, Chapter 3 The Old-fashioned School
- Part 2, Chapter 4
- Part 2, Chapter 5 The Rejected Blessing
- Part 2, Chapter 6
- Part 2, Chapter 7 The Provincial Muster
- Part 2, Chapter 8 The Acadian Exiles
- Part 2, Chapter 9
- Part 2, Chapter 10
- Part 3, Chapter 1
- Part 3, Chapter 2
- Part 3, Chapter 3 The Hutchinson Mob
- Part 3, Chapter 4
- Part 3, Chapter 5 The Boston Massacre
- Part 3, Chapter 6
- Part 3, Chapter 7
- Part 3, Chapter 8
- Part 3, Chapter 9 The Tory's Farewell
- Part 3, Chapter 10
- Part 3, Chapter 11 Grandfather's Dream
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 1
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 2 Benjamin West
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 3 Sir Isaac Newton
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 5 Samuel Johnson, continued
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 6 Oliver Cromwell
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 7 Benjamin Franklin
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 8 Benjamin Franklin, continued
- Biographical Stories, Chapter 9 Queen Christina
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a Chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The Chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages, of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs, it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to thrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever a historical personage happens to be looking round for a seat. - Summary from Preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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