KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Children's Classics: 21 Novels, 130+ Stories, Fairy Tales & Poems (Illustrated)By Kate Douglas Wiggin
Length179h 8m
About this audiobook
Kate Douglas Wiggin – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories gathers the full range of a writer central to American domestic fiction, children's literature, and late nineteenth-century regional realism. From the enduring charm of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to tales of travel, village life, courtship, moral education, and family feeling, the collection reveals Wiggin's graceful prose, comic timing, and sentimental yet observant imagination. Her work belongs to a literary context shaped by New England local color, Victorian moral culture, and the emerging modern interest in childhood as a distinct emotional and social world. Wiggin's fiction was deeply informed by her life as an educator and reformer. A pioneer of the kindergarten movement in the United States, she founded schools for disadvantaged children and wrote influential works on early education. This commitment to nurture, imagination, discipline, and social sympathy animates her storytelling, where young protagonists and domestic communities often become laboratories for ethical growth. This volume is recommended for readers interested in classic American fiction, women's writing, children's literature, and the cultural history of education. It offers both pleasure and scholarly value: a generous archive of wit, tenderness, reformist idealism, and narrative craftsmanship.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length179 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 24, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Rebecca of Sunnybrook:
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6REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (pt. 1)
7REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (pt. 2)
8REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (pt. 3)
9REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (pt. 4)
10NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (pt. 1)
11NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (pt. 2)
12NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (pt. 3)
13THE FLAG-RAISING
14Penelope Hamilton Series:
15PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES (pt. 1)
16PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES (pt. 2)
17PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLAND (pt. 1)
18PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLAND (pt. 2)
19PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLAND (pt. 3)
20PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES (pt. 1)
21PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES (pt. 2)
22PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES (pt. 3)
23PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES (pt. 4)
24PENELOPE'S POSTSCRIPTS (pt. 1)
25PENELOPE'S POSTSCRIPTS (pt. 2)
26The Homespun Trilogy:
27ROSE O' THE RIVER (pt. 1)
28ROSE O' THE RIVER (pt. 2)
29THE OLD PEABODY PEW
30SUSANNA AND SUE (pt. 1)
31SUSANNA AND SUE (pt. 2)
32Other Novels:
33A SUMMER IN A CAÑON: A California Story (pt. 1)
34A SUMMER IN A CAÑON: A California Story (pt. 2)
35A SUMMER IN A CAÑON: A California Story (pt. 3)
36POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM: A Story for Girls (pt. 1)
37POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM: A Story for Girls (pt. 2)
38THE BIRD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
39THE ROMANCE OF A CHRISTMAS CARD
40TIMOTHY'S QUEST (pt. 1)
41TIMOTHY'S QUEST (pt. 2)
42MARM LISA (pt. 1)
43MARM LISA (pt. 2)
44MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS (pt. 1)
45MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS (pt. 2)
46MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS (pt. 3)
47MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS (pt. 4)
48THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL
49A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP
50THE STORY OF WAITSTILL BAXTER (pt. 1)
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