Welcome back to Day 3 of the Riverside eBooks Series.
If you missed Day One, please check the details regarding the Riverside Literature Series and information regarding downloading the ebooks. Also, don’t forget to download your 10 ebooks for each day from Day Two, Day Four and Day Five!
The quantity of books in the Riverside Literature Series seems daunting. Were students in the 1800’s and early 1900’s required to read them all? I can imagine some honor students today struggling with such a task. Perhaps there was a specific system, organized by year. In fact, it appears that way. Based upon an announcement it seems specific books were indeed recommended (see image below). Students read Benjamin Franklin, Hawthorne, George Washington, Longfellow and Thoreau during the 1886-1887 school year. I’m intrigued. What grade level does this apply? Is this an elementary school reading assignment? High school? Does it even correlate to what we envision in a K-12 grade level? Tomorrow I’ll share with you what I’ve found.
Day Three eBooks
John Burrough’s Birds and Bees
- Introduction, Bird Enemies, The Tragedies of the Nests, An Idyl of the Honey-Bee, The Pastoral Bees (88 pages)
- Sharp Eyes and Other Papers starts at the end of page 88. (96 pages) I also have this individual book listed separate on the list.
Hawthorne’s Little Daffydowndilly, and Other Stories
Biographical Sketch, Little Daffydowndilly, Little Annie’s Ramble, A Childish Miracle, A Rill from the Town Pump, David Swan, The Vision of the Fountain, The Threefold Destiny (89 pages)
Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other Poems
Biographical Sketch, The Vision of Sir Launfal, Poems Having a Special Relation to the Vision of Sir Launfal, The Harvard Commemoration, Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, Memoriae Positum, Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, The First Snow-Fall, The Changeling, The Foot-Path, Aladdin, Aids to the Study of the Vision of Sir Launfal, Topics for Study (113 pages)
Holmes’s My Hunt After the Captain, and Other Papers (after pg. 96)
Introductory Essay and Notes, Dr. Holmes’s Prose Writings, My Hunt After the Captain, Physiology of Walking, Great Trees (93 pages)
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech, etc.
Preface, Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by James Russell Lowell, Mr. Lincolns Speeches-Papers-Letters, Oh Captain! My Captain. by Walt Whitman, Lincoln’s Birthday-Materials for Sketch of Lincoln’s Life, Chronological List of Events in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (100 pages)
Longfellow’s Building of the Ship, and Other Poems
Introduction, The Building of the Ship, The Masque of Pandora, The Hanging of the Crane, Morituri Salutamus, Keramos (94 pages)
Hawthorne’s Tales of the White Hills, and Sketches
- Introduction, The Great Stone Face, The Ambitious Guest, The Great Carbuncle, Sketches from Memory, My Visit to Niagara, Old Ticonderoga, The Sister Years (95 pages)
- Starts after page 95- Introductory Note, The Old Manse, Drowne’s Wooden Image, Feathertop: A Moralized Legend, The Old Apple Dealer and a Few Mosses with Introductory Notes (92 pages)
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
Introduction, The Pilgrim’s Progress with Notes (196 pages)
Tennyson’s Coming of Arthur, etc.
Introductory Sketch, The Coming of Arthur, Lancelot and Elaine, Guinevere, The Passing of Arthur (119 pages)
John Burrough’s Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
Sharp Eyes, The Apple, A Taste of Maine Birch, Winter Neighbors, Notes by the Way: The Weather Wise Muskrat-Cheating the Squirrels-Fox and Hound, The Woodchuck (96 pages)
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