Freckles (With Original Illustrations)

Freckles (With Original Illustrations)

From beginning to end, Gene Stratton-Porter holds our attention in Freckles as much by her beautiful writing as by the gripping events of the story. This heartwarming tale is full of characters who show us what it is to be honest and loving: Freckles, the plucky orphan who can work and fight like any man despite having mysteriously lost a hand in infancy; the quaint Bird Woman, and the beautiful and devoted Angel are all so real to us that we love them and long to be like them. The whole world, human and natural, is beautiful to Stratton-Porter, and she ushers us into the Limberlost swamp with moving pictures of its strange majesty or jewel-like loveliness. Matching Stratton-Porter's appreciation of natural beauty are the "decorations" drawn by Earl Stetson Crawford for the 1904 edition of Freckles , newly restored and currently available only in this edition . The pages are overflowing with marginal illustrations of flowers, dragonflies, bees, and the incidents of the story, helping to make the experience of reading even richer and more vivid. This is a carefully designed edition of the 1904 classic, formatted to closely imitate an early Grosset & Dunlap edition, and the cover is based on the same original. Close attention has been paid to specifics such as correctly formatting italics, quotation marks & apostrophes, and sections of verse. Unabridged.