The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston
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"The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana" by Edward Eggleston is a novel published in 1871. Based on the author's brother's experiences as a schoolteacher, it depicts rural Indiana life through vivid scenes of country schools, spelling bees, and frontier communities. The story weaves romance and conflict against authentic portrayals of pioneer customs, from battles between schoolmasters and unruly students to illiterate preachers and crude court proceedings, all rendered
in authentic local dialect. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937 |
| Illustrator | Starkweather, William Edward Bloomfield, 1876-1969 |
| Title | The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_(novel) |
| Credits |
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Teachers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Indiana -- Fiction |
| Subject | Country homes -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 15099 |
| Release Date | Feb 18, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 14, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 675 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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