A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series (Illustrated)
The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth - Children's Book ClassicsBy William Dean Howells
Length24h 20m
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In this series, William Dean Howells delightfully describes the early years of his life, in the "Boy's Town" of Ohio, the state where he was born and raised. These stories remain as a vivid autobiographical records and colorful images of a life in the mid-nineteenth century American town.
Extract:
"If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else."
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length24 hrs 20 mins
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Publish dateDec 19, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A BOY’S TOWN ADVENTURES – Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy’s Town & Years of My Youth
62XVI. Other Boys
2I. Pony’s Mother, And Why He Had A Right To Run Off
63XVII. Fantasies and Superstitions
3II. The Right That Pony Had To Run Off, From The Way His Father Acted
64XVIII. The Nature of Boys
4III. Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape
65XIX. The Town Itself
5IV. The Scrape That Jim Leonard Got The Boys Into
66XX. Traits and Characters
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6V. About Running Away To The Indian Reservation On A Canal-boat, And How The Plan Failed
67XXI. Last Days
7VI. How The Indians Came To The Boy’s Town And Jim Leonard Acted The Coward
68Preface by the Illustrator
8VII. How Frank Baker Spent The Fourth At Pawpaw Bottom, And Saw The Fourth Of July Boy
69I
9VIII. How Pony Baker Came Pretty Near Running Off With A Circus
701
10IX. How Pony Did Not Quite Get Off With The Circus
712
11X. The Adventures That Pony’s Cousin, Frank Baker, Had With A Pocketful Of Money
723
12XI. How Jim Leonard Planned For Pony Baker to Run Off On A Raft
734
13XII. How Jim Leonard Backed Out, and Pony Had To Give It Up
745
14I. Adventures in a Boy's Town
756
15How Pony Baker Came Pretty Near Running Off With a Circus
767
16The Circus Magician
778
17Jim Leonard's Hair-Breadth Escape
789
18II. Life in a Boy's Town
7910
19The Town
8011
20Earliest Memories
81II
21Home Life
821
22The River
832
23Swimming
843
24Skating
854
25Manners and Customs
865
26Girls
876
27Mothers
887
28A Brother
898
29A Friend
909
30III. Games and Pastimes
9110
31Marbles
9211
32A Mean Trick
9312
33Tops
9413
34Kites
9514
35The Butler Guards
96III
36Pets
971
37Indians
982
38Guns
993
39Nutting
1004
40The Fire-Engines
1015
41IV. Glimpses of the Larger World
1026
42The Travelling Circus
1037
43Passing Shows
1048
44The Theatre Comes to Town
1059
45The World Opened by Books
10610
46The Last of a Boy's Town
10711
47I. Earliest Experiences
108IV
48II. Home and Kindred
1091
49III. The River
1102
50IV. The Canal and Its Basin
1113
51V. The Hydraulic and Its Reservoirs.—old River
1124
52VI. Schools and Teachers
1135
53VII. Manners and Customs
1146
54VIII. Plays and Pastimes
1157
55IX. Circuses and Shows
1168
56X. Highdays and Holidays
1179
57XI. Musters and Elections
11810
58XII. Pets
11911
59XIII. Guns and Gunning
12012
60XIV. Foraging
12113
61XV. My Boy
12214
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