Dec 28, 2009
America’s Ethan Allen | America’s Ethan Allen
At a glance:
- Author: Stewart Holbrook
- First Published: 1949
- Time of Work: 1737–1789
- Setting: Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Canada, and
England
- Principal Characters: Ethan Allen, Thomas Young, Stephen Fay, Green Mountain Boys, Thomas Chittenden, Noah Phelps, Seth Warner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Colonies or colonization, American Revolution, War, Eighteenth century, Military life or service, Heroes or heroism, Patriotism, Biography
- Locales: Connecticut, New York, England, Canada, New Hampshire, Vermont
Form and Content
Stewart Holbrook begins his chronology on a stormy night in
January, 1737, when Ethan Allen was born and ends on another stormy
night in February, 1789, when Allen died—appropriate settings
for this man of action. The narrative of America’s Ethan
Allen moves smoothly from incident to incident and is interspersed
with facts about what was happening in America, and Holbrook’s
renderings of dialogue give the story a sense of immediacy. With no
divisions other than the occasional blank line, the story flows freely
and swiftly with the help of Lynd...
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