Written for Children
Auteur: John Rowe Townsend
Nombre de pages: 160 pages
ISBN: ISBN non disponible
Edition: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Date de publication: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Description: "This is a brief, readable account of English prose fiction for children from its beginnings main streams of development and includes the 'Courtesy Books' of a later age, and the work of the remarkable John Newbery in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century which began with Mrs. Sherwood's The Fairchild Family - 'designed to strike the fear of hellfire into every child's soul' - later saw the works of Lewis Carroll, Stevenson, Henty and the development of the school story from 'Tom Brown' to 'Stalky.'"--Jacket.