The Ice Queen (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Christmas Specials SeriesBy Ernest Ingersoll
Length5h 15m
About this audiobook
The Ice Queen is a brisk work of juvenile adventure, shaped around winter danger, youthful resourcefulness, and the moral education of its characters. Ingersoll writes in the late nineteenth-century tradition of instructive adventure fiction, where excitement is joined to practical knowledge: ice, weather, movement, shelter, and survival are rendered with a naturalist's attentive eye. Its prose is direct and energetic, balancing suspense with observation, and it belongs beside the period's stories that made the natural world both a testing ground and a classroom. Ernest Ingersoll was unusually equipped to write such a book. Born in 1852, he became known as an American naturalist, explorer, journalist, and popularizer of science, with experience in the West and a long career explaining animals, landscapes, and outdoor life to general readers. His fiction often reflects this background: rather than treating nature as mere scenery, he presents it as an active force requiring intelligence, courage, and disciplined attention. This book is recommended for readers interested in classic adventure stories, the history of children's literature, and early American nature writing. It offers not only narrative pleasure, but also a revealing glimpse of how nineteenth-century writers taught young readers to read both books and the physical world.
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
Rating★★★ 3.3 (22)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing
GenreChildren's Literature
Length5 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Holy Night & Other Christmas Stories by Selma Lagerlöf (Annotated)
2Chapter I. Thrown Upon Their Own Resources
3Chapter II. “The Youngster’s” Plan
4Chapter III. Fitting Out the “Red Erik”
5Chapter IV. Making a Start
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6Chapter V. Comfort in a Log Cabin
7Chapter VI. Norse Tales
8Chapter VII. The First Day on the Lake
9Chapter VIII. Jim's Rebellion
10Chapter IX. Skating by Compass
11Chapter X. An Ugly Ferriage
12Chapter XI. Camping Against an Ice Wall
13Chapter XII. Snowed Under
14Chapter XIII. Saved From Starvation
15Chapter XIV. The Arctic Visitors
16Chapter XV. Christmas Bird-Catching
17Chapter XVI. How Tug Made “Twitch-Ups”
18Chapter XVII. The Breaking Up of the Ice
19Chapter XVIII. Rescuing the Wanderers
20Chapter XIX. Adrift on an Ice Raft
21Chapter XX. A Night in an Open Boat
22Chapter XXI. The Escape to the Shore
23Chapter XXII. Rex Fights Unknown Enemies
24Chapter XXIII. Exploring the Island
25Chapter XXIV. The Wild Dogs Again
26Chapter XXV. The Perils of a Midnight Search
27Chapter XXVI. Finding Snow-Birds and Losing the Captain
28Chapter XXVII. Another Encounter With the Wild Dogs
29Chapter XXVIII. The Accident Explained
30Chapter XXIX. Deciding Upon a New Move
31Chapter XXX. Katy Tames the Wild Dogs
32Chapter XXXI. Abandoning the Island
33Chapter XXXII. An Astonished Farmer
34Chapter XXXIII. The “Times” Correspondent
35Chapter XXXIV. A Happy Conclusion
36Memorable Quotes
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