GOOSSENAERTS J.MareMagnum
Eggleston, EdwardMareMagnum
The Hoosier School-Master: A Novel
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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