Delaware Tom (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Western Novel: The Traitor GuideBy Jos E. Badger
Length3h 55m
About this audiobook
Delaware Tom is a brisk frontier romance built around the exploits of a resourceful backwoods hero moving through contested borderlands, where pursuit, disguise, captivity, and sudden reversals generate the book's momentum. Written in the idiom of the nineteenth-century dime novel, it favors rapid incident, heightened dialogue, and morally legible conflict over psychological introspection. Its literary ancestry reaches back to Cooper's Leatherstocking tales, yet its compact, sensational form reflects the popular marketplace that transformed frontier myth into mass entertainment. Jos E. Badger, more commonly known as Jos. E. Badger Jr., was a prolific American writer of popular adventure fiction whose work appeared in the expanding cheap-fiction culture of the late nineteenth century. His familiarity with the conventions of scout narratives, Indian-fighting romances, and wilderness melodrama enabled him to craft stories that satisfied readers hungry for action while also reproducing the era's assumptions about heroism, settlement, and national expansion. Readers interested in early American popular literature, frontier mythology, or the evolution of the western will find Delaware Tom rewarding. It is best approached not as realism, but as a revealing artifact of narrative energy, cultural fantasy, and democratic print entertainment.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length3 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 17, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
8CHAPTER VII. A TANGLED TRAIL.
2CHAPTER I. AN ALTERCATION.
9CHAPTER VIII. SAVAGE TACTICS.
3CHAPTER II. THE STORM-CLOUD BREAKS.
10CHAPTER IX. BOUND TO THE STAKE.
4CHAPTER III. A WILD RACE.
11CHAPTER X. THE WINDING TRAIL.
5CHAPTER IV. THE FORLORN HOPE.
12CHAPTER XI. REUNITED.
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6CHAPTER V. DELAWARE TOM.
13CHAPTER XII. DOG EAT DOG.
7CHAPTER VI. TOM MAXWELL TURNS INDIAN.
14Memorable Quotes
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