The Hoosier School-Master: A Novel
by Eggleston, Edward
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
N Y: Orange Judd Company, 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 218 pages, plus advertisements. 5""w x 7 1/2""h. Full green cloth boards with embossed decorations and gilt lettering on spine. With 29 b&w illustrations. ""The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston. The novel originated from a series of stories written for Hearth and Home, a periodical edited by Eggleston, and was based on the experiences of his brother, George Cary Eggleston, who had been a schoolteacher in Indiana. The novel is noted for its realistic depictions of 19th-century American rural life and for its use of local dialect.""
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143666
- Title
- The Hoosier School-Master: A Novel
- Author
- Eggleston, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Orange Judd Company
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Edward Eggleston, Novel, fiction, Indiana, Hearth and Home, Periodical, Backwoods life, Teacher, Dialect, 1800's, Rural Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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