The Flight Of Pony Baker
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849657736 |
'The Flight of Pony Baker' will at once commend itself to boys and their elders because it is the work of William Dean Howells. Mr. Howells knows the modern American boy so thoroughly, his ambitions and traits, his temptations and joys, that one is predisposed to like Pony Baker. He lived in a small country town and was petted by his mother much to his disgust, and sternly suppressed by his father; and of course, being a boy, he planned to run away to the Indians, and, later, he made up his mind to join a circus—what boy has not? But through all these phases of his young life our author brings Pony Baker, showing his old-time charm of narration. The days are those before the war; the scene is in a little Ohio river town; and the characters are real boys and real girls. Pony Baker decides upon flight from his home, and the most admirable humor is shown in narrating his various attempts at absconding, not one of which becomes known to his unsuspecting parents until the book's close; and even this attempt is not carried very far.
Author | : W.D. Howells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2017-07-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 8075838211 |
The Flight of Pony Baker is a novel for children which tells the story of a young boy named Pony Baker who, throughout the book, attempts to run away from his home where he lives with his mother, father, and five sisters. The setting of the story is "fifty years ago" in the Boy's Town of Ohio, the state where Howells was born and raised. Pony lives in the Boy's Town with his mother, father, and five sisters, whom his mother always wants him to play with. Pony's mother is very overprotective of Pony, which makes her a bad mother when it comes to having fun. Pony's father has done some things that have given Pony the right to run away as well. An older boy named Jim Leonard suggests that Pony go with the Indians and that the Indians would like him and then adopt him into their tribe. Extract: "If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else." William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : New York Harper 1902. |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : |
Tells the story of a young boy named Pony Baker who, throughout the book, attempts to run away from his home where he lives with his mother, father, and five sisters.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514672990 |
If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 2017-07-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 8075838335 |
In this series, William Dean Howells delightfully describes the early years of his life, in the "Boy's Town" of Ohio, the state where he was born and raised. These stories remain as a vivid autobiographical records and colorful images of a life in the mid-nineteenth century American town. Extract: "If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else." William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.
Author | : W. D. Howells |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2016-02-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781523983223 |
The Flight of Pony Baker is a novel for children, one of the many stories written by William Dean Howells. It was published by Harper and Brothers in 1902 in New York, New York. It tells the story of a young boy named Pony Baker who, throughout the book, attempts to run away from his home where he lives with his mother, father, and five sisters. The setting of the story is "fifty years ago" in the Boy's Town of Ohio, the state where Howells was born and raised.
Author | : William Howells |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2017-11-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781979981934 |
William Dean Howells' charming story of a young boy named Frank Baker, who is nicknamed 'Pony'. Throughout the story, the rascally lad attempts to escape from his family home. Naturally curious but also mischievous, the young Pony feels oppressed by his overprotective mother. Desiring freedom and adventure, he dreams of escaping his family life and school for good. Eventually, Pony gains the encouragement and assistance of his friends, who are amused by his predicament. The members of the group playfully pressure Pony into going through with his ambition, and take increasing interest in his attempts. Throughout this whimsical story, Pony attempts to escape home with a passing company of Native Americans, a circus, and down the nearby river on a raft. We are left in suspense; each time, it appears that Pony is going to succeed in absconding the town only for him to be thwarted by sheer happenstance. Written around the turn of the 20th century, The Flight of Pony Baker is brimming with the frontier spirit and independence that characterized the United States at the time. Drawing on incidents from his own childhood, the author attempts to reflect life in small town America of the era, where the great outdoors formed a large part of life for children.
Author | : Howells William Dean |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781318871988 |
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781499557732 |
If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else.