KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN’SSTORIES OF PURE DELIGHTFull of originality and humor, kindliness and cheer
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN’SSTORIES OF PURE DELIGHT
Full of originality and humor, kindliness and cheer
THE OLD PEABODY PEW.Large Octavo. Decorative text pages, printed in two colors. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens.One of the prettiest romances that has ever come from this author’s pen is made to bloom on Christmas Eve in the sweet freshness of an old New England meeting house.PENELOPE’S PROGRESS.Attractive cover design in colors.Scotland is the background for the merry doings of three very clever and original American girls. Their adventures in adjusting themselves to the Scot and his land are full of humor.PENELOPE’S IRISH EXPERIENCES.Uniform In stylewith “Penelope’s Progress.”The trio of clever girls who rambled over Scotland cross the border to the Emerald Isle, and again they sharpen their wits against new conditions, and revel in the land of laughter and wit.REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.One of the most beautiful studies of childhood—Rebecca’s artistic, unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand out midst a circle of austere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenal dramatic record.NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA.With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.Some more quaintly amusing chronicles that carry Rebecca through various stages to her eighteenth birthday.ROSE O’ THE RIVER.With illustrations by George Wright.The simple story of Rose, a country girl and Stephen a sturdy young farmer. The girl’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love and merges the story into an emotional strain where the reader follows the events with rapt attention.
THE OLD PEABODY PEW.Large Octavo. Decorative text pages, printed in two colors. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens.
One of the prettiest romances that has ever come from this author’s pen is made to bloom on Christmas Eve in the sweet freshness of an old New England meeting house.
PENELOPE’S PROGRESS.Attractive cover design in colors.
Scotland is the background for the merry doings of three very clever and original American girls. Their adventures in adjusting themselves to the Scot and his land are full of humor.
PENELOPE’S IRISH EXPERIENCES.Uniform In stylewith “Penelope’s Progress.”
The trio of clever girls who rambled over Scotland cross the border to the Emerald Isle, and again they sharpen their wits against new conditions, and revel in the land of laughter and wit.
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.
One of the most beautiful studies of childhood—Rebecca’s artistic, unusual and quaintly charming qualities stand out midst a circle of austere New Englanders. The stage version is making a phenomenal dramatic record.
NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA.With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.
Some more quaintly amusing chronicles that carry Rebecca through various stages to her eighteenth birthday.
ROSE O’ THE RIVER.With illustrations by George Wright.
The simple story of Rose, a country girl and Stephen a sturdy young farmer. The girl’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love and merges the story into an emotional strain where the reader follows the events with rapt attention.