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Oldtown Folks is an 1869 novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is written from the first-person perspective of a young man named Horace Holyoke, who describes his youth in fictional Oldtown, Massachusetts - including humorous depictions of daily life, behavior of local towns folk, and the adoption of Harry and Eglantine Percival.
- Harriet Elizabeth Beecher . Stowe, Henry Farnham May
- 1869
Oldtown knew exactly when, how, and why he caught the cold that set him into consumption, and what he ought to have taken to cure it, and did n't. And now he was, so to speak, dying under a cloud, just as Oldtown always knew he would.
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Oct 25, 2012 · Possibly a greater work of art than Uncle Tom's Cabin, Oldtown Folks gives a penetrating and panornamic view of life in a New England village in the years following the Revolutionary War, and before the coming of the railroad and the steam engine.
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- 1869
- Harriet Elizabeth Beecher . Stowe, Henry Farnham May
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dec 21, 2022 · Oldtown Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Publication date 1869 Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1713806953 ...
Followed three years later by Oldtown Fireside Stories (1872), Oldtown Folks is an underappreciated masterpiece from the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the most influential...
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Oldtown folks by Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; May, Henry Farnham, 1915- ed
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Oldtown Folks. The novel "is written from the first-person perspective of a young man named Horace Holyoke, who describes his youth in fictional Oldtown,...
