Bücher von George Sheldon

The Little Brown House On The Albany Road is a novel written by George Sheldon and published in 1915. The story revolves around a young girl named Ruth, who lives in a small brown house on the outskirts of the town. Ruth's father is a farmer, and her mother has passed away. Ruth is a kind and caring girl who loves to help others. One day, Ruth meets a wealthy woman named Mrs. Van Cortlandt, who takes an interest in her and offers to send her to a boarding school. Ruth is excited about the opportunity and begins to dream of a better life. However, when she arrives at the school, she finds that it is not what she expected. Ruth struggles to fit in at the school, but she perseveres and eventually becomes a successful student. She makes friends with a girl named Alice, who helps her navigate the social hierarchies of the school. Ruth also meets a young man named Tom, who she falls in love with. As Ruth's life begins to improve, she receives news that her father has fallen ill. She returns home to care for him and realizes that her true happiness lies in the little brown house on the Albany Road. Ruth decides to stay in her hometown and help her father with the farm. She also decides to marry Tom and start a family of her own. The Little Brown House On The Albany Road is a heartwarming story about the importance of family, friendship, and finding happiness in the simple things in life. It is a classic tale of perseverance and determination, and it has been beloved by readers for over a century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

John Williams was a Puritan minister in Deerfield, Massachusetts, at a time of intense hostility between English settlers and the local Indian tribes. Throughout the 1690s the young clergyman was continually called upon to encourage and comfort his parishioners as members of the community were killed or captured by Indians. On February 29, 1703, Williams himself became a victim when a French and Indian raiding party sacked Deerfield. Two of his children were murdered outside his house, but he, his wife and their five other children were kidnapped and marched - with over a hundred captured prisoners - to Montreal. His wife, as well as many others who were too weak or infirm for the arduous journey, was killed along the way. He spent two and a half years as a captive in Quebec. Williams wrote his autobiographical account of the ordeal in 176, the year he was released, and it remained for many years one of the most populart among numerous Indian captivity accounts. After his description of the march to Montreal, Williams' narative focuses on the coercive attempts of the French to proselytize the English prisoners into the Roman Catholic faith. To make this early New England classic available to readers, Heritage Books, Inc. has taken a 1908 reprit of the 1795 sixth edition of The Redeemed Captive, which contains a sermon preached by Williams at Boston only two weeks after his return. Several appendices are also included, containing such information as, the names of all the Deerfield captives and brif chronologies of Deerfield before and after the devastating raid. A new everyname index has been added. Greatly enhancing this offer of the Williams' book is its combination with the related 1905 work by George Sheldon, Heredity and Early Environment of John Williams, "The Redeemed Captive." This valuable record provides biographical details of John Williams' youth, education and early adulthood as well as background information into the Puritan faith that was so much a part of Williams' and his neighbors' lives. An everyname index is included.