A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series (Illustrated)
A Realist Memoir of Nineteenth-Century Ohio Boyhood, Civic Life, and Moral DiscoveryBy William Dean Howells
Length24h 28m
About this audiobook
A Boy's Town Adventures—Complete Series gathers William Dean Howells's boyhood narratives into a richly observant portrait of American life before the Civil War. Drawing on the author's memories of growing up in a small Ohio river community, the book transforms ordinary incidents—schoolroom rivalries, neighborhood enterprises, youthful excursions, and encounters with local eccentrics—into episodes of comic and moral significance. Its prose combines plainspoken realism, affectionate irony, and the vivid particularity of regional description. The illustrations complement this nostalgic yet unsentimental recreation of childhood, placing the work within the tradition of nineteenth-century American juvenile literature while anticipating the psychologically attentive realism for which Howells became renowned. Howells (1837–1920), the leading American realist and an influential critic and editor, brought to these stories the perspective of a mature novelist revisiting formative experience. His upbringing in a printing and newspaper family exposed him early to language, public life, and the social textures of a developing republic. That background helps explain the book's unusual blend of memoir, local history, and fiction: childhood is not isolated from society but presented as an apprenticeship in judgment, sympathy, and communal responsibility. Readers interested in American realism, literary autobiography, and the history of children's literature will find this volume especially rewarding. Its adventures offer humor and suspense, while its careful evocation of place reveals how memory becomes cultural history. The complete, illustrated presentation makes it an appealing introduction to Howells's humane art and to the imaginative world of nineteenth-century American boyhood.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (15)
Includes Amazon
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length24 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 19, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated (Annotated)
2A BOY’S TOWN ADVENTURES – Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy’s Town & Years of My Youth
3THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER: A Boy's Town Story
4I. Pony’s Mother, And Why He Had A Right To Run Off
5II. The Right That Pony Had To Run Off, From The Way His Father Acted
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6III. Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape
7IV. The Scrape That Jim Leonard Got The Boys Into
8V. About Running Away To The Indian Reservation On A Canal-boat, And How The Plan Failed
9VI. How The Indians Came To The Boy’s Town And Jim Leonard Acted The Coward
10VII. How Frank Baker Spent The Fourth At Pawpaw Bottom, And Saw The Fourth Of July Boy
11VIII. How Pony Baker Came Pretty Near Running Off With A Circus
12IX. How Pony Did Not Quite Get Off With The Circus
13X. The Adventures That Pony’s Cousin, Frank Baker, Had With A Pocketful Of Money
14XI. How Jim Leonard Planned For Pony Baker to Run Off On A Raft
15XII. How Jim Leonard Backed Out, and Pony Had To Give It Up
16I. Adventures in a Boy's Town
17How Pony Baker Came Pretty Near Running Off With a Circus
18The Circus Magician
19Jim Leonard's Hair-Breadth Escape
20II. Life in a Boy's Town
21The Town
22Earliest Memories
23Home Life
24The River
25Swimming
26Skating
27Manners and Customs
28Girls
29Mothers
30A Brother
31A Friend
32III. Games and Pastimes
33Marbles
34A Mean Trick
35Tops
36Kites
37The Butler Guards
38Pets
39Indians
40Guns
41Nutting
42The Fire-Engines
43IV. Glimpses of the Larger World
44The Travelling Circus
45Passing Shows
46The Theatre Comes to Town
47The World Opened by Books
48The Last of a Boy's Town
49A BOY'S TOWN
50I. Earliest Experiences
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