The Birthday Party
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1863
- Pages
- 37
About this book
The Birthday Party is one of Oliver Optic's many novels for boys, working in the kind of family and community setting that the author used across portions of his wider catalogue. The birthday party setting provides the central social occasion that the wider plot develops around, with the various relationships and situations that the gathering produces driving the moral and emotional material of the novel.
Oliver Optic was the pen name of William Taylor Adams, a Massachusetts writer who became one of the most prolific producers of boys' fiction in mid to late nineteenth century America. His total output runs into more than a hundred novels across multiple connected series. For scholars of nineteenth century American children's literature or of the wider career of Oliver Optic, the various novels in his catalogue are essential. Many of his books are now in the public domain.
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Book facts
- Author
- Oliver Optic
- First published
- 1863
- Reading time
- About 35 minutes
- Pages
- 37
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Chapter Books
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online