Oldtown Folks (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First Published: 1869
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Horace Holyoke, Deacon Badger, Mrs. Badger, Mr. Lothrop, Mrs. Lothrop, Harry Percival, Eglantine (Tina) Percival, Miss Mehitable Rossiter, Ellery Davenport, Esther Avery, Sam Lawson
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, New England, American Revolution, Eighteenth century, Calvinism, Duels or dueling, Puritans or Puritanism, Realism, Eighth century
- Locales: Boston, MA, New England
The Story:
Years later, Horace Holyoke could remember Oldtown as he had known it when he was a boy, a quiet little village beside a tranquil river in Massachusetts. Surrounded by farmhouses deep in green hollows or high on windy hilltops, Oldtown consisted of one rustic street, where the chief landmarks of the community stood. Among these were the meetinghouse with its classic white spire, the schoolhouse, the academy, a tavern, and the general store, which was also the post office. As was common in those days, when New England was changing from a Puritan theocracy of little...
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