Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair
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"Holiday House: A Series of Tales" by Catherine Sinclair is a children's novel published in 1839. Set in Edinburgh, it follows siblings Laura, Harry, and Frank Graham as they live with their uncle and grandmother. The story traces the children's journey from mischievous behavior to growing maturity, culminating in a tragedy that transforms them. Sinclair deliberately rejected the overly didactic approach common in children's literature of her era, instead celebrating "noisy, frolicsome,
mischievous children" in what critics consider a groundbreaking transitional work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Sinclair, Catherine, 1800-1864 |
|---|---|
| Title | Holiday House: A Series of Tales |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_House_(novel) |
| Credits |
Produced by Jana Srna, D Alexander, David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Siblings -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Behavior -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 32811 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-32811-9 |
| Release Date | Jun 14, 2010 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 381 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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